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Welcome to English 96 
Reading Improvement
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Nov. 17-21 Main Ideas and Book Review Week 10

M: Main and Implied Idea.  HW:  202-210

 T: Context clues.   

W:  BR : Putting a Book Review together -- read model book reviews.BR: Would you recommend your novel or not - 10 minute non-stop writing.

 R: Quiz  on Main Ideas and Implied Ideas.

F:   Computer day. 

Discussion Question:  What is still giving you nightmares  (if anything) when it comes to reading/summaryzing/finding key ideas/ taking test?
Nov. 24-28 Book Review Work Week 11

Week 11 Nov. 24-28   Book Review Work

 M:  Conferences (9:30 in 1219 after 10:20 in Room 239A)

 T:  Conferences (9:30 in 1219 after 10:20 in Room 239A)

 Week's Question:  Final Thought! Final chance to add your ideas and thoughts to the board!

 W- F : Happy Thanksgiving!
Dec. 1-5 Testing Week 12

Week 12 Dec. 1-5   Book Review Presentations and Final

 M:  First draft of book review due for peer edit. HW: Create five questions you would like to see on the final.
bullet T: Create questions for final.

 W&R:  Final exam.  Book review due on Thursday. Final class.  You can pick all of your work at the beginning of next quarter.

 

  

Discussion Board -- Earn extra points each week by answering the challenge question.  You have from Monday to Sunday of each week to answer that week's challenge question.  If you want to participate just click here or click on the Readers Talk button.  Also, please be aware you have  one week exactly to give your response from Sunday, 12:01 a.m. to Saturday 11: 59 p.m. constitutes a  week, so if you answer your discussion question each Friday during the hour that we have assigned to the class, you will have your credit for that assignment.

Four Reasons for Comprehension Failure

The majority of this class is dedicated to helping you learn to read faster and to start trusting your ability to read to prepare you for your academic success. The curriculum is designed around the idea that you need successful strategies in order to become more efficient in reading.

The four most common reasons for lack of comprehension:

1. failure to understand a word; (Week 1-4)
2. failure to understand a sentence; ( Week 5- 7)
3. failure to understand how sentences relate to one another;
4. failure to understand how information fits together in a meaningful way.

To address these issues we will make use of:

 timed readings to help students discover that not knowing each word does not detract from understanding the main idea of a piece, as well as encouraging them to read in "chunks" of meaning

weekly summary writing to aid in grasping the entire meaning, instead of focusing on discrete words

discovering and exploring the differences between syntactic and semantic context clues

learning the difference between general and specialized vocabulary, then practicing some ways to work with each, i.e., roots, prefixes, suffixes, and semantic mapping

evaluating the discrete parts of an article or essay, i.e., thesis statements, topic sentences, methods of development within each paragraph

evaluating articles and essays holistically to find purpose: to persuade, to inform or to entertain; knowing these help with discovering the main idea

reviewing the reading process

 reading in-depth from a textbook increase comprehension and reading strategies

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Instructor: Dr. Jan Strever
Spokane Community College
Fall, 2003
9:30 - 10:30 M - F 
Room 1219, Old Main

   
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