ACT Reading
Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day

A study aid to the ACT Reading section which presents principles and strategies that promote effective reading. It includes sample passages with commentary on how to select the correct answers. It features strategies for tackling reading comprehension passages under the pressure of time.

This book helps readers master reading for the ACT - fast! If ACT savvy is what you seek, this book is the resource you need. Learn the secrets, shortcuts, and strategies to succeed - with only minutes of effort a day. Lively and straight to the point, this study aid to the ACT Reading section presents key principles and practical strategies that promote effective reading, practical test strategies that are life-savers when you're under time restraints, and sample passages with insightful commentary on how to select the correct answers. It features essential strategies for tackling reading comprehension passages under the pressure of time. It provides sample passages and questions with examiner comments. It contains bite-sized sections ideal for students who study in short doses.

Introduction
Making This Book Work for You
Principles of Reading
1. Rev That Engine, Parnelli!
2. Know When and What to Skip
3. Crystal Bell Grazing
4. Writing Between the Lines
5. X-Ray Vision
6. Something Worth Arguing About
7. Summarily Dismissed
8. Be Chalant
9. The power of Pivot
10. Wordlubbers, Beware
11. Get a Clue, Holmes
12. Coming to Terms
13. The Harder It Comes
14. Reading Fiction
15. Come to Your Senses

Test Strategies
1. Be the Test Maker
2. Ah, the Humanity (etc)
3. Mo, Hairy and Curly Context
4. The questions are the Answers
5. Context Messaging
6. The Night Before the Night Before
7. Translate Questions into English
8. Understand Overstaments
9. Read as a writer
10. Be a Med-Tater Tot
Etc.