TOP 50 SAT READING, WRITING,AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
How to Use This Book
Guessing
About Brian Leaf
Acknowledgments
Pretest
Reading Comprehension
	SKILL 1 The Intro Paragraph
	SKILL 2 The SAT Reading Meditation
	SKILL 3 “Plethora” Most Nearly Means
	SKILL 4 Direct Info
	SKILL 5 What Are You Trying to “Suggest”?
	SKILL 6 ASS of U and ME
		Vocab I: Compliment or Insult? Drills
		Vocab II: Superbad Vocabulary Drills
		Vocab III: Deodorant and Spanish Class Drills
		Vocab IV: Splitting Words Drills
	SKILL 7 Some Attitude
	SKILL 8 Two Passages
	SKILL 9 Main Idea
	SKILL 10 Best Evidence
	SKILL 11 Table
	SKILL 12 Gretchen Is “Such” a Good Friend
	SKILL 13 Parallel
	SKILL 14 How to Be a Reading Ninja
Writing Multiple Choice
	SKILL 15 Subject/Verb Agreement
	SKILL 16 Subject/Verb Agreement Tricks
	SKILL 17 Pronoun Clarity and Agreement
	SKILL 18 Correct Transition Word
	SKILL 19 Brave, Honest, and Relaxed
	SKILL 20 Comparison
	SKILL 21 Relaxing Commas
	SKILL 22 Are You Independent?
	SKILL 23 Correct Preposition
	SKILL 24 It’s Me
	SKILL 25 A Few More Rules
	SKILL 26 Direct, to the Point, Not Redundant
	SKILL 27 Misplaced Phrases
	SKILL 28 Word Choice
	SKILL 29 Flow
	SKILL 30 Goal Questions
	SKILL 31 Yes or No?
	SKILL 32 Adverbs End in “ly”
	SKILL 33 Jedi Master Yoda
	SKILL 34 Combining Sentences
	SKILL 35 How to Think Like a Grammar Genius
Essay Practice!
	SKILL 36 Reading
	SKILL 37 Prove It!
	SKILL 38 Dude’s Got Style!
	SKILL 39 Craft Your Thesis
	SKILL 40 Intro Paragraph
	SKILL 41 Transition Sentences
	SKILL 42 Body Paragraph I
	SKILL 43 Body Paragraph II
	SKILL 44 A Strong Body
	SKILL 45 What’s the Problem?
	SKILL 46 Stretch the Dough
	SKILL 47 Conclusion
	SKILL 48 Other Stuff That Matters
	SKILL 49 Proofread
	SKILL 50 How to Be a Writing Monster
Bonus Skill: Writing the Perfect Essay
Tavi’s Terrific Essay
Easy, Medium, Hard, and Guessing Revisited
Now What?
Posttest
Solutions