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Best Reading Practices. Fall 2013 Michelle Riley & Chelsie Hawkinson. Releva nt Statistics. Reading Comprehension Strategies. Examples. Prediction Speed Dating Think Aloud Frederick Douglass Questions/Questioning Picture of the Week High Quality Talk College Readiness.
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Best Reading Practices Fall 2013 Michelle Riley & Chelsie Hawkinson
Examples Prediction • Speed Dating Think Aloud • Frederick Douglass Questions/Questioning • Picture of the Week High Quality Talk • College Readiness
Second Date • “[General education] ‘gateway’ courses restrict access to majors and also tend to ‘weed out’ students who are incapable of succeeding in them. Failure rates in some of these courses approach 50 percent…” (p. 11). • Do you think you are having any experiences with a “weed out” course? • A popular belief in higher education is that students who do not succeed in general education courses do not “belong” in college. What is your response to this statement?