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IntroductionCourse SyllabusGroup Activity

Reading Analysis

ApplicationsHomework

Syllabus OverviewTransition by exploring the syllabus and completing questions to follow.

READING ANALYSIS

Reading Analysis Group Activity

Think about the following question:1. What is reading?

2. What percentage of American adults are unable to read at an eighth grade level?

3. What grade level does the average American read?

4. What percentage of Americans are illiterate?

5. Discuss/Write why reading is a major problem in America?

Reading Analysis Group Activity

6. If you can’t read do words have meaning?

7. What are three primary purposes for reading?

Reading Analysis Group Activity

9. What different skills and strategies do you need to accomplish these varied purposes for reading?

Reading Analysis Group Activity

10. What do you expect we will do in this course to help you develop these skills and strategies?

1. reading is…2. 50% of Americans don’t read at an 8th grade

level3. The Average American reads at a 7th grade level4. 14% of Americans are illiterate (can’t read)5. answers may vary6. answers may vary7. Read to search, pleasure, general

comprehension, learn or integrate information9. Answers may vary10. Answers may vary

Active Reading

“GOOD READERS’ STRATEGIES”

"How can you tell when someone is a good reader? What do you think teachers look for when they are trying to understand how well someone reads?”

Active reading is defined as being involved with material they are reading. Think, question, challenge, criticize, and take specific steps to understand, remember and evaluate what they read.

READING SIMULATION

Watch the video below and see if you are able to answer the six questions that follow accurately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCbrQp3MIwc

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UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURE: ACTIVE

READING

-What is the figure doing?

-What do you notice about him?

-This statue is called The Thinker, and it is in Paris. It is bigger than life-size and carved of stone. What do you think the artist’s message is?

-Why did he choose this particular method of sending it?

-Now think about why you are here? What is your motivation for being in college?

ACTIVE READING

Like the image of The Thinker effective reading requires that individuals have a clear understanding of why you are reading an assigned passage and what your learning goals are for reading.

Reading is an active thinking process ofunderstanding an author’s ideas, connecting

thoseideas to what you already know and organizing

allthe ideas so you can remember and use them.

PURPOSE OF READING

There are several possible purposes for reading:

 reading to search for specific information reading for pleasure reading for general comprehension reading to learn reading to integrate information

BEFORE DURING AND AFTER READING

SURVEYING AND PREVIEWING A READING

The purpose of reading strategies is to recognize how an author has structured a reading.

Two important reading strategies are: Surveying Previewing – allows for the reader to skim the reading

more closely and allows for readers to determine important features of the passage.

Turn to textbook page 108-109

SURVEYING

a technique that allows for you to quickly scan the materials to determine what you already know about the topic. It also allows for you to connect to your prior knowledge and readies your brain to receive new information.

Surveying

Surveying the text means looking at the table of contents, at chapter headings, titles, boldfaced words, subheadings at summaries, abstracts or graphics, for an overview of content and purpose.

Let’s PracticeUsing Surveying

1. Read the title and ask yourself: What is this reading about?

2. Ask yourself: What do I already know about this topic?

3. Predict what you think the reading will be about4. Flip through the reading and read the headings

and captions. Look at the diagrams or pictures. 5. Turn the title and headings into questions to

hone in on content and organization6. Scan for words you don’t know and circle them.7. Repeat step #3. What do you now think the

reading will cover?

PREVIEWING

Allows for the reader to skim the reading more closely and allows for readers to determine important features of the passage.

While you may survey a textbook in its entirety, you preview only a section of the chapter at a time.

Previewing requires that you read a significant parts of the passage.

Requires that you look at the introduction

PREVIEWING A READING

1. Read the title2. Read the first paragraph3. Reading the first sentence of each of the middle paragraphs 4. Reading the entire concluding paragraph

DIRECTIONS:

READ THE SELECTION FOCUSING ON KEY COMPONENTS AS EXPRESSED BY PREVIEWING

STRATEGY

BE READY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

Let’s PracticeUsing Previewing

Malcolm X- Learning to Read

Preview the text using PDR worksheetRead the selection – take note to key

informationAnswer questions that follow

Access to BlackboardCh. 6 Exercise 12 pp. 120 (create guide

questions)Ch. 6 Exercise 16 pp. 123 (answer the guided

that you created)

Read pages 506 – 509 I will scan these documents and post on

blackboard by 1:00 under (Course Documents)DUE Tuesday