National Adult Literacy Database

The Next Step – Reading Skills for Adults series is part of a project intended to enhance New Brunswick adult upgrading curriculum and instructional materials. The focus of this series of six books is reading comprehension skills.

This is the third in the series; this book builds on and reinforces the information provided in the first two books, 14014 and 14015. Chapters in this book include instruction on the main idea, facts and details, sequencing, context clues, inferences, logical conclusions, facts vs. opinion, vocabulary development (homonyms and idioms), figures of speech and literacy devices (such as anecdote, metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole), reading literature (such as poetry, short stories, myths and legends), and journalism (newspapers and magazines).