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Critical Reading Skills

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

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Critical Reading Skills

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  1. Critical Reading Skills Time4Learning http://www.time4learning.com/contactUs.htm

  2. 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

  3. 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. • All the tests you take in elementary, middle, and high school are geared towards determining if you are at your reading grade level and/or college ready.

  4. 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

  5. Important areas • Five critical reading skills were found to be very important for improvement: • Phonemic awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension (Appendix C, MINORITY VIEW by Joanne Yatvin, Ph.D.. Oregon Trail School District, Sandy, Oregon)

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. How to make Speed Reading Actually Work • The conscious focus of the brain is oriented towards preparing a speech on the topic being perused rather than trying to hope that text flying by like the spray from a fire hose will make sense • It first requires the "student" to learn how to speed read the "old fashioned way" at extremely high speeds. • Once this is "achieved", the speed reader has to completely re-learn how to speed read again from scratch.

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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/

  13. Exercise Time! • New Vocabulary • DICT, DIT, SPEC/SPIC, TEND, SEN, NOM/NOUN/NOWN/NAM • Mind Mapping EX

  14. Exercise for your eyes • ***See Sheets

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