To score well on the SAT reading sections, you must read.
All the published information regarding high SAT reading scores states that a person who reads acquires a diverse vocabulary and, therefore, understands words in context.
Remember that there are three levels of vocabulary: reading vocabulary, writing vocabulary, and speaking vocabulary. Your reading vocabulary is your largest.
So read!! Read books, magazines, newspapers. This section with its subsections gives you online sources as well.
Open Book. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 20 May 2013.
Open Book. Photography. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 20 May 2013.
Rhetorical devices are elements or literary tools used in speaking and writing to help the speaker or writer use language more effectively.
Turquoise Coloured Book With Decorative Spine And Silver Pen. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 18 May 2013.
Free books in the public domain, internet-based -- most are "classics."
The SAT reading passages do include some use of literary techniques; therefore, this "Figures of Speech" link may help you in your SAT preparation.
Digital Illustration Of Row Of Books On Bookshelf.Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest.Web. 13 May 2013.
These materials are in the Phoenix Center Library's "College and Career" (CC) section.
The New York Times offers its awesome "Learning Network" blog where the students can comment on news; take a daily news quiz; do a crossword puzzle; get ideas from readers; participate in the NYT summer reading contest; click on "On this Day" to explore a day in history; check out Finding Dulcinea with whom the NYT is collaborating; and more.
"Mind mapping can help you understand and remember the important issues in your readings." The following steps to creating a mind map can help summarize your readings.
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