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CASAS Test Prep Student Book for Reading Goals Forms 901R/902R Level A
This test prep student book is designed to successfully develop adult learners' academic reading skills, preparing them for CASAS Reading GOALS Level A Forms 901R/902R tests and for vocational training, and admission reading tests. In other words, this student textbook presents academic reading activities that help adult education programs, and workforce programs and their learners meet the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reading expectations.
The reading exercises and answer keys of this test prep student book cover CASAS Reading GOALS Level A standards and College and Career Readiness (CCR) reading standards and content. For example, each lesson focuses on two main areas: vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.
Reading Strategies
This student reading textbook covers and teaches the following reading strategies:
- Using Context Clues To Extract Key Details
- Making Implications and Inferences
- Technical, Connotative, and Figurative Meanings
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Distinguishing Different Points Of View
- Fact-Checking and Understanding References
- Logic and Structure
- Using Illustrations and Text
- Summarizing Narratives
- Comparing and Contrasting
- Extracting The Central Message
This consumable student textbook provides practice exercises for using the reading strategies to access different types of texts (science, social studies, technical texts, and literary texts). The lessons put emphasis on text complexity, evidence, and knowledge.
