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Reading skills are crucial to college success. Foundational reading skills include the ability to identify main and subordinate ideas, make inferences, separate fact from opinion, identify biases and point of view, master vocabulary, and adjust reading rates and skills to various kinds of written materials.
Dr. Peggy Strickland of Gainesville State College, Georgia, has created a series of PowerPoints on reading topics: Vocabulary in Context, Pronoun Reference, Restatement, Test Taking Hints, Main Idea/Supporting Details, Annotation/Summary, Patterns of Organization, Inference, Figurative Language, Fact and Opinion, Purpose and Tone, Graphics.
Focuses on vocabulary building for the SAT/GRE.
"VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links, so you can look them up with just a click--in a dictionary of your choice."
Vocabulary University's "educational content features include grade level interactive word puzzles that help expand one's vocabulary (starting with High Elementary - 4th grade - through College Prep). [The site also contains] other Rooty*Hoot*HootŪ brand puzzles using Latin & Greek roots, synonyms, antonyms and analogies."
Primarily basic vocabulary drill. Not as useful for college students, but may be useful for ESL students