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Transitions Reading

Resources for developing your reading skills in preparation for transitioning to college and work.

Reading Skills Videos

Reading Resources

  • #1 Vocab: Using Context Clues
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  • #1A Vocab: Using Word Parts
    Video Presentation
  • #2 Finding the Main Idea
    Video Presentation
  • #3 Finding Significant Details
    Video Presentation
  • #4 Transition Words
    Video Presentation
  • #5 Fact and Opinion
    Video Presentation
  • #6 Understanding Tone
    Video Presentation
  • #7 Making Inferences
    Video Presentation
  • # 8 Figures of Speech
    Video Presentation
  • #9 Argument
    Video Presentation
  • #10 Understanding Character
    Video Presentation
  • #11 Author's Purpose
  • ​Critical Thinking and Reading
  • NROC: Implied main idea
  • Multiple Lessons to Prepare for the RLA Test
  • Reading Comprehension
    21 videos from Mometrix.com
  • Difference Between Topic Sentences and main Ideas
  • Making Predictions
  • ID the Point of the Argument
  • Drawing Inferences
  • Identifying topics
  • Paraphrasing Topic Sentences
  • recognizing the Appropriate Inference
  • Drawing Logical Infernces
  • Analyzing Arguments:Evaluating Support
  • Analyzing Arguments: Discovering the Point
  • Evaluating Support
  • Recongnizing Purpose and Bias
  • ID Purpose and Tone
  • Detecting Bias
  • Detecting Bias, pg. 2
  • Detecting Bias, pg. 3
  • Drawing Conclusions
  • Drawing Conclusions, pg 2
  • Recognizing Purpose and Tone
  • Using Context Clues
  • Making Sentence connections
  • Phrases and Paraphrasing
  • Summarizing
  • Recongnizing Mixed Patterns
  • Recognizing Organizational patterns
  • Recognizing the Appropriate Inference
  • Understanding Figurative Languatage
  • Put It All Together
    Aurthor's main idea, tone, purpose,bias
  • Terms related to the Internet

Online Reading Practice

ReadWorks
1. Have students go to www.readworks.org/student
2. Students should sign in with their Google account.
3. Students enter class code XBW2JE

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Practice Reading, Writing, and Math skills and prepare for college placement tests.

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Use SkillTutor and Aztec to learn improve your reading, writing, math, and language arts skills (capitalization, punctuation and spelling)

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Click here to sign up for the Transitions Reading Common-Lit class
RLA Practice Test


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Reading Skills Practice

Main Idea
  • Supporting Details
  • Saylor: main idea & supporting details
Practice with Patterns of Organization
McGraw-Hill Practice Test
4Tests.com Practice

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ESL Books

eBook English Volume 1: Rock and Roll --practice English while learning about Rock and Roll