Updated Consumable TABE 11 & 12 Student Reading Manual Level M with Answer Keys

This Consumable TABE 11 & 12 Student Reading Manual for Level M is designed to successfully prepare adult learners for the TABE 11 & 12 Level M reading test and vocational training admission reading tests. In other words, this manual presents exercises 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 manual cover TABE 11 & 12 Level M and CCR reading standards and content.

For example, the reading comprehension exercises address 1) Key ideas and details, 2) Craft and structure and 3) The integration of knowledge and ideas. This Consumable TABE 11 & 12 Reading Student Manual for Level M is divided into 20 sections.

1. Introduction

2. Lesson 1 - Suggestions for Better Reading Comprehension

3. Lesson 2 - Activating Background Knowledge

4. Lesson 3 - Making Inferences

5. Lesson 4 - Visual Imagery

6. Lesson 5 - Vocabulary and Context Clues

7. Lesson 6 - Question-Answer Relationships

8. Lesson 7 - Reading for Main Ideas

9. Lesson 8 - Comprehension Monitoring

10. Lesson 9 - Summarization

11. Lesson 10 - Understanding Figurative Language

12. Lesson 11 - Identifying Text Structure

13. Lesson 12 - Point of View

14. Reading Strategy Summary Cards

15. Connections to the Standards

16. Reading Long Passages

17. Additional Reading Exercises

18. Reading Skills Self-Evaluation

19. Practice Tests

20. Answer Keys

To be specific, this manual is designed for adult learners as an instructional guide for the development of reading comprehension strategies and skills. This book offers reading strategies to help adult learners become more active, strategic, and purposeful readers. The use of these strategies will also help learners understand and remember what they read. Reading is an active and thinking process. Therefore, this book encourages learners to actively engage with texts (technical, scientific, social studies, and literary) by predicting, making connections and inferences, asking and answering questions, and completing the comprehension activities.

There are eight research-based strategies presented in this manual: Activating background or prior knowledge, Making inferences and predictions, Using visual imagery, Using context clues to build vocabulary, Question & answer relationships (QARs), Reading for main ideas, Comprehension monitoring, and Summarizing. In addition to the eight reading strategies, the reader is introduced to figurative languages such as simile and metaphor. Understanding their use in reading is an aid to comprehending text. Understanding themes or the author’s message about human nature or life is also discussed. Text structure or organizational pattern-chronology, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, and problem-solution-is also presented in this manual.

Finally, this manual teaches about points of view. Identifying points of view in fiction and non-fiction texts improves reading comprehension. And all the reading strategies are presented with examples, pictures, and text.