NET Reading Handouts

DIRECTIONS

1.     After carefully reading the Learning Lab Resources Page, click on Reading Strategies.

2.     Concentrate on each of the Reading Strategies presented:

- Establishing a Central Theme

- Understanding the Main Idea

- Discovering a Purpose

- Making an Inference

- Predicting Outcomes

3.     At the end of each section are links to printable handouts which will help you master each reading strategy.

4.     Work through the handout, recording your answers on the printed handout or paper.

5.     After completing each handout, recording your answers on the printed handout or paper.

6.     If you are having difficulty with a section come to the Henry Ford Community College Learning Lab for help.

7.     After completing the entire Reading Strategies section, take the Pretest.

Remember:  Time yourself!  Try to complete as many of the twenty one questions as you can in twenty minutes.

The actual NET Test:  Reading Section will have 33 questions, and you will have 30 minutes to complete it.

In each case, you are trying to earn a final score of at least 65.

8.     After the computer has scored your test, analyze the questions you answered incorrectly by using the Type of Question List.  Circle the number of the questions you answered incorrectly.

9.   Then count up the number of each type of questions you answered correctly and write it in the printable Diagnostic Chart for the Pretest and Calculate your score.

10.    Determine your score by multiplying the number correct by 5.

11.    Determine which type of question you missed most and go back and review the Reading Strategies for that type of question.

12.    For additional work on Reading Strategies, Speed Reading, and NET preparation visit the Henry Ford Community College Learning Lab or the additional websites listed below.

The Learning Lab has a number of reading handouts to help you study for the NET.  Click on the link and print out the handout so you will be able to do the exercises that follow.

Reading Strategies

Main Idea 1
Main Idea 2
Main Idea 3
Drawing Conclusions 1
Drawing Conclusions 2
Drawing Conclusions 3
Inference 1
Inference 2
Inference 3
Theme 1
Theme 2

After reading about the reading strategies and doing the exercises, click on the Reading Net Pretest  link to continue.