This test prep student book is designed to successfully develop adult learners' academic reading skills, preparing them for CASAS Reading GOALS Level B Forms 903R/904R tests and for workforce and college reading.

In other words, this student textbook presents academic reading activities 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 test prep student book cover CASAS Reading GOALS Level B standards and College and Career Readiness (CCR) reading standards and content.

For example, each lesson focuses on three main areas: vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, and higher-order reading skills. This reading textbook covers and teaches the following reading strategies:

✓ Using Background Knowledge

✓ Making Inferences and Predictions

✓ Using Visual Imagery

✓ Identifying Types of Text Structures

✓ Understanding Figurative Language

✓ Building Vocabulary Using Context Clues

✓ Understanding Question-Answer Relationships (QARs)

✓ Learning Nonfiction Text Features

✓ Reading for Main Ideas

✓ Understanding Main Ideas and Finding Evidence

✓ Understanding What You Read

✓ Using Text Structure to Build Reading Comprehension

✓ Understanding Point-of-View

✓ Reading Graphs and Data

This consumable student book provides practice exercises for using the reading strategies to access different types of texts (science, social studies, and technical texts, literary texts). The lessons put emphasis on text complexity, evidence, and knowledge.