Success in EAP
Reading and Vocabulary Resources
1. Main Ideas, Central Ideas, Implied Main Ideas
Practice with Main Ideas, Central Ideas, and Implied Main Ideas
Finding the Topic and the Main Idea
2. Supporting Details
Practice with Supporting Details
3. Fact and Opinion
Practice with Fact and Opinion
4. Purpose and Tone
Practice Identifying Purpose and Tone in a Reading
5. Organizational Patterns and Organizational Transitions
Practice Recognizing Patterns of Thought in a Reading
Different Patterns of Organization
6. Inferences
7. Argument and Support
8. Figurative Language and Idioms
9. Using a Dictionary
Using a Monolingual Dictionary
10. Textbook Analysis and Methods of Textbook Reading and Note-taking
11. Test Skills and Practice for Reading Exams
A: Florida State Basic Skills Exit Exam Practice
Florida State Basic Skills Exit Exam Practice
B: CPT Reading
CPT Reading Practice Tests from Valencia CC
C: Understanding Test Questions
Analyzing Test Directives in Essay Tests
14. Word Study
Develop Vocabulary While Reading
15. Summarizing and Paraphrasing
See Writing Resources section
