Reading – The OTHER Breakfast of Champions!

1. Reading – The OTHER Breakfast of Champions!

2. Let’s Review • ILLO/ETTE: • CAP/CIP/CEIPT/CEPT: • GEN: • DE: • SUPER/SUR: • TEND: • TRANS: • DOC/DUC: • CO/CON/COM: • PUG: • BELLU,BELLI: • GNOS: • ANTHRO: • PLAC: • PRO: • SCIEN: • EX: • GREG: • AMBU: • A, IM, In, An: • BEN/BON/EU: • NE/MAL/CACO: • ITY: • IZE/ATE/IFY: • IST: • OUS: • ANTE: • POST: • VERS/VERT:

3. New Words PATH: SPEC/SPIC: TEND: CLA/CLU VO/VOC/VOK/VOW: FRA/FRAC/FRAG: Feeling See Stretch thin To Close Word To break

4. SAT & Critical Reading Skills Time4Learning http://www.time4learning.com/contactUs.htm

5. What is Reading Comprehension? • Reading comprehension skills separates the "passive" unskilled reader from the "active" readers. • Skilled readers don't just read, they interact with the text. • Inner Monologue

6. Benefits of Good Reading Comprehension • Reading comprehension skills increase the pleasure and effectiveness of reading. • Strong reading comprehension skills help in all the other subjects and in the personal and professional lives. • High stake testing control advancement through elementary, middle, and high school and determine entrance to college.

7. Congress decides to mandate good reading skills • Congress charged the National Reading Panel (NRP) with researching “the effectiveness of various approaches to teaching children to read.“ • They wanted to find out what methods work best for reading improvement

8. Tactics that work • We are using the following strategies that work for reading comprehension: • .Mind Mapping . Direct instruction . Use of decodable texts . Embedded skills instruction . Integrated reading and writing . Access to quality literature . Whole-class instruction . Teacher modeling

9. Speed Reading • Develop "traditional" old fashioned speed reading habits first • Once thoroughly ingrained it will allow the student to input and scan information quickly • Reading becomes habitualized at mostly an unconscious level. • In this version of speed reading, rather than the incoming flow of information being the focus of attention, active cognitive processes that organize information dominate. • See references to “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell

10. Mind Mapping • Basically going through information in order to find the major concepts • A student can create a visual Mind Map or a Linear Mind Map • Really helps for studying for tests in general

11. Steven as a Mind Map GOOD STUDENT GETS GOOD GRADES ON TESTS STUDIES FOR TESTS DOES HOMEWORK LISTENS –even when he doesn’t seem like it HAS GOOD RECALL

12. Chunking Reading • Basically highlighting chunked portions of the reading in order to read faster • Students practice reading the highlighted areas faster and faster until they reach the desired speed and comprehension levels

13. Vocabulary • Vocabulary is important to not only reading, but writing. • Studying and utilizing vocabulary helps reading comprehension • It is also very important for the verbal SAT

14. Be familiar with types of Passages • List Them: • Science, History, Art, Fiction, Minority, Double Passage • Scientific • --Tactic: Look at sentences before and after to explain hard terms, Read quickly for facts • Historical • –Tactic: Put “Ex” to mark examples in margin, Circle names, Read carefully • Art • Tactic: Remember it is always Positive

15. Types of Passages Tactics cont… • Fiction • --Tactic: Read carefully, Figurative, take your time to read • Minority Passage • –Tactic: Always Positive • Double Passage • Tactic: Read intro, Read one, do questions, Read second, do questions, Then do questions for both

16. References • Time4Learning, http://www.time4learning.com/contactUs.htm • Wiki Books, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page • Rocket Reader, http://www.rocketreader.com/download/RocketReaderDownload.html • OSPI,http://www.k12.wa.us/

17. DRILL TIME!!!!! 10 WORD: Money • Money, Matinee, Minute, Maid, Money, Maalox, Malodorous, Money, Man, Minute, Main, Money, Matt, Money, Minute, Maid, Matinee, Maid, Man, Matt, Malodorous, Manatee, Man, Money, Mall, Man, Matt, Minute, Money, Malodorous, Malodorous, Mall, Minute, Maladroit, Malcontent, Mall, Money, Maid, Matinee, Money, Main, Money

18. DRILL TIME!!!!! 6 WORD: eating • Painting, fainting, eating, waiting, tainting, stating, trading, nailing, bailing, bating, eating, fainting, nailing, mailing, stating, waiting, fainting, baiting, tainting, eating, forgetting, jailing, trailing, eating, tainting, waiting, eating, nailing, trailing, eating, hailing, painting

19. DRILL TIME!!!!! 4 WORD: fulfilling • Final run, finale, final year, final time, fulfilling, final fun, final run, final game, fatal move, final year, final summer, finale, fulfilling, final time, final game, fulfilling, final grade, final class, fulfilling, final move, full of

20. DRILL TIME!!!!! 5 WORD: sit up • Herd up, nerd up, sit up, stood up, put up, heads up, sit up, come up, shut up, what up, sit up, nerd up, herd up, put up, shut up, heads up, sit up, what up, come up, heads up, stood up, herd up, nerd up, shut up, put up, heads up, what up, sit up, sip

21. DRILL TIME!!!!! 9 WORD: UB ROCKS Everyone Rocks, UB Rocks, Darren rocks, Meron Rocks, UB Rocks, Rishawn Rocks, Loc Rocks, UB Rocks, Victor Rocks, Joseph Rocks, Amber Rocks, UB Rocks, Preetika Rocks, UB Rocks, Tony Rocks, Ashley Rocks, UB Rocks, Donna rocks, UB Rocks, Everyone Rocks, UB Rocks, Leny Rocks, UB Rocks, David Rocks, Brian Rocks, Phong

22. Exercise Time! See how quickly you can find the main idea! Micrometer Measures small distances King Cobra Deadly!

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24. ***Be the first to see count how many times you see the phrase listed? 9

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26. Find the word that means the definition!

27. One more time!