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Teaching effective reading skills to college students

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Teaching effective reading skills to college students

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    1. Teaching effective reading skills to college students Some practical suggestions

    2. What is reading? 2

    3. What is reading? 3

    4. What is reading? 4

    5. What is reading? 5

    6. Why do we read? Information Information/pleasure Pure pleasure Exams !!! 6

    7. What do we read? Books Newspapers, Magazines Photocopies, articles Notices Correspondence Forms, Signs Handheld media devices Computer screens Multi-media carriers 7

    8. What is the content? Fiction (long and short) Songs Plays Current events, feature articles and essays Academic articles, reports, reviews Warnings, directions Letters, postcards and notes Business letters, solicitations T-shirt messages, bumper stickers Raw data 8

    9. What is the content? Poetry (Auto)biography Schedules Maps Menus Advertisements Announcements Comics Workbook exercises Bibliographic information 9

    10. What is the text structure? Charts, graphs, illustrations Isolated lines of text Free form Interlinear notes Point and click images Expository Narrative Headings, subheadings 10

    11. What skills do we use? Skimming Scanning Extraction of specific information In-depth (extensive) reading Metacognition (Hudson, 2007, p. 27) 11

    12. Comprehension skills Recalling word meanings Drawing inferences about a meaning of a word from context Finding answers to questions answered explicitly or merely in paraphrase Weaving together ideas from content Drawing inferences from content Recognizing a writers purpose, attitude, tone, and mood Identifying a writers technique Following the structure of a passage. (Davis, 1968) 12 ))

    13. 1: Extensive reading Extensive reading foundation: www.erfoundation.org/index.html/ Extensive reading pages: www.extensivereading.net/er/er.html Video of Dr. R. Days talk about ER/IR: www.sendspace.com/file/nq6ydr Rocky Nelsons resources http://nelson.myfastmail.com/ Extensive Reading/ http://nelson.myfastmail.com/ Intensive Reading Content Based/ 01:24 13

    14. Class library 14

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    16. The aim of graded reading 16

    17. Literary fiction 17

    18. Movies 18

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    21. Reading comics and cartoons 21

    22. Comics and cartoons 22

    23. Comics and cartoons 23

    24. Comics and cartoons 24

    25. Cartoons: Tintin 25

    26. Using literature: Novels Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol http://www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/christmas-carol/ http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChri.html http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Dickens/Christmas_Carol.asp http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/christmascarol/ http://www.longmankorea.com/detail.aspx?ISBN=0582421209 (graded reader) http://books.mirror.org/gb.dickens.html http://wiredforbooks.org/carol/content.htm (audio) http://welchwrite.com/blog/audio/2008/ christmas-carol-2008.mp3 (audio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hA5T1G7rxg (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwii8AMfgkA&feature=related (YouTube, part 2) http://www.teachers.tv/video/30574 (Dickens Museum) 26

    27. Using literature: Drama Henrik Ibsen: A Dolls House http://books.google.co.kr/ http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/ http://www.gradesaver.com/a-dolls-house/ http://www.enotes.com/dollshouse http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/322/2393/frameset.html Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qssF73w6thw 27

    28. E-books (Handout) 28

    29. Online reading (Handout) English Lit: http://www.english-literature.org/resources/ Fictionwise: http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/freebooks.htm Free Books: http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Free online books: http://www.freeonlinebooks.org/ Litrix: http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm Manybooks: http://manybooks.net/ Memoware: http://www.memoware.com/ Microsoft: http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?src...inia+Libr ary Microsoft reader: http://www.microsoft.com/Reader/ O'Reilly Open Book: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ Online Book Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Page by page books: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 29

    30. Integrated reading Holistic approach All four skills Pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading Graded tasks Critical thinking Problem-solving Online follow up Active English Discussion 30

    31. Online newspapers 31

    32. Online newspapers 32

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    34. Online print media 34

    35. Blogs 35

    36. More blogs 36

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    38. Finally Email: aef@knu.ac.kr Courses: www.finchpark.com/courses Articles: www.finchpark.com/arts PhD Thesis: www.finchpark.com/afe Books: www.finchpark.com/books 38

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