This test prep student book is designed to successfully develop adult learners' academic reading skills, preparing them for CASAS Reading GOALS Level D Forms 907R/908R tests and vocational training, admission reading tests. 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 D 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 student reading textbook covers and teaches the following reading strategies:

• Effective Vocabulary Strategies
• Using Your Background Knowledge
• Topic vs. Main Idea: What's the difference?
• Learning to Summarize
• Drawing Inferences
• Comprehension Monitoring
• Question-Answer Relationships
• The Importance of Text Structure
• Figuring out Figurative Language
• Examining the Point of View
• Analyzing the Author's Purpose and Technique
• Evaluating the Credibility of Texts

This consumable student textbook 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.