Goodman, Burton <br/><br/>
Shocks :  15 Startling Stories to Shock and Delight, with Exercises for Comprehension & Enrichment / 
Burton Goodman. 
 - Providence, RI :  Jamestown Publishers,  1994. 
 - 151 p. :  ill ;  24 cm.  
<br/><br/> "Catalog no. 665."  "Level E" 
<br/><br/>"This book contains 15 exciting stories by some of the world's greatest writers. As the title suggests, each story provides a shock. These talkes offer you hours of reading pleasure. And the exercises that follow will help you improve your reading and literature skills.  You will notice that the exercises are also based on a shock:  Selecting Details from the Story<br/>  Handling Story Elements<br/>  Observing New Vocabulary Words<br/>  Completing a Cloze Passage<br/>  Knowing How to Read Critically<br/> Selecting details from the story helps you improve your reading skills. Handling story elements helps you understand key elements of literature. On page 7 you will find the meanings of ten important terms. If you wish, look back at those meanings when you answer the questions in this section.  Observing new vocabulary words helps you strengthen your vocabulary skills. Often, you can figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word by using context clues in the story. Those clues are the words and phrases around the unfamiliar word. The vocabulary words in the story are printed in boldface. If you wish, look back at these words before you answer the questions in this section.  Completing a cloze passage helps you strengthen your reading and your vocabulary skills through the use of fill-in, or cloze, exercises.  Knowing how to read critically helps you sharpen your critical thinking skills. You will reason by using story clues, making inferences (figuring things out), and drawing conclusions." (To the Student, p.5-6)<br/> TABLE OF CONTENTS :<br/> To the Student<br/> The Short Story-Literary Terms<br/> 1. The Monkey's Paw<br/>  / W.W. Jacobs<br/> 2. The Love Powder  / O. Henry<br/> 3. Dear Amanda<br/>  / Linnah Gary<br/> 4. The Expression<br/>  / José Francés<br/> 5. The Cog<br/>  / Charles Fritch<br/> 6. The Scholarship <br/>  / Minfong Ho<br/> 7. The Invaders   / Jack Ritchie<br/> 8. Blue Eyes Far Away <br/>  / MacKinlay Kantor<br/> 9. The Cow-Tail Switch <br/>  / Folktale from Liberia<br/> 10. The Snakes of Bera<br/>  / Cecelia Rathbone<br/> 11. Of Missing Persons<br/>  / Jack Finney<br/> 12. Matrimony Inn<br/>  / Lin Yutang<br/> 13. Rain, Rain, Go Away<br/>  / Isaac Asimov<br/> 14. The Wind and the Rosebush<br/>  / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman<br/> 15. The Donkey Goes to Market<br/>  / Alice Geer Kelsey<br/> Acknowledgments<br/> Progress Chart<br/> Progress Graph<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0890617503 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reading comprehension.<br/>Reading (Adult education)<br/>Readers (Adult)