Chapter 1: Engaging with Reading

1. Chapter 1: Engaging with Reading

2. What’s happening tonight? • Turn in assignments • Entrance letter • Acknowledgement Syllabus & CofC • Student Information Sheet • Should have completed Aplia Diagnostic Test (extended to this Wed) • Why is Reading Important ? • Video • Exercise

3. Why is Reading Important? Take a whiteboard and some pens.

4. Why is Reading Important? • Reading is essential to education • People with degrees make more money • Education also benefits • Health • Family life • Society at large

6. Strategize to Win! • Your textbook will teach you strategies to get the most from your readings • You can turn these strategies into habits to help with reading tasks through college and through your career.

7. The Reading Process • Before • During • After • Survey • Guess the purpose • Check prior knowledge • Predict • What you do depends on your purpose • Understand • Monitor comprehension • Search for relevance • Be open to learning new information • Search for significance

8. Before • Guess the purpose of the reading or selection • Survey to get an overview of what will be coming • Predict what's going to happen • Think about prior knowledge

9. The Reading Purpose Is the author trying to . . . • Persuade • Inform • Express

10. Survey the Reading • Pay attention to these things: • Title • Headings • First sentences of paragraphs • Words in bold and italic type • Images and their captions

11. Predict the Purpose Two basic ways to predict the author’s purpose: • Selection titles will often reveal the purpose • Make an educated guess based on where the selection appears • Newspaper? • Textbook? • Magazine?

12. Activate Prior Knowledge • Think about what you already know • Fitting what you are learning into what you already know is a natural and powerful learning technique.

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14. Dictionary Cookbook Magazine Advertisement Religious Work (like the Bible) Army Ranger Handbook Phone Book Newspaper Editorial People Magazine Get Rich Quick Website Textbook Comic Book Newspaper Paperback Novel National Enquirer

15. Dictionary Cookbook Magazine Advertisement Religious Work (like the Bible) Army Ranger Handbook Phone Book Newspaper Editorial People Magazine Get Rich Quick Website Textbook Comic Book Newspaper Paperback Novel National Enquirer

16. Fill In the Blanks is knowledge that you have you read. Prior knowledge before

17. During • Monitor comprehension • Search for significance • Picture or hear what the author is saying • Put ideas in your own words • Be open to learning something new

18. Monitoring Comprehension While reading, ask yourself • Am I losing comprehension? • Am I re-reading? • Can I tell what is important?

19. Search for Significance • Look for the relevance of the reading to your life and to other ideas and situations. • Think about how the reading changes or reinforces your prior knowledge.

20. Use Imagination • Picture or hear what the author is saying.

21. In Your Own Words • To check for understanding, try to put what the author is saying into your own words.

22. Be Open to Learning • Be aware what you read might give you new knowledge, or contradict your prior knowledge. • Ask “Why is this new information relevant?” • Ask “How is this different from what I thought was true?”

23. After • What you do depends on your purpose.

24. After Reading • In college you need effective strategies to help you learn, study, and remember information. • Review and rehearse using three methods: • Think about the ideas • Discuss the ideas • Take notes on the ideas

25. Your Reading Rate

26. Reading Purpose Affects Rate Your reason for reading also impacts speed. • Long-term learning • Short-term recall • Basic understanding • Skimming • Scanning

27. Complexity Decreases Rate • Vocabulary you don't understand • Long, complex sentences • Theoretical, abstract, or confusing ideas; or ideas with complex processes

28. Your Interest Level • Boring readings require discipline • Practice your reading strategies to help stay focused

29. Your Prior Knowledge • It’s easier to read familiar content • A lack of prior knowledge will slow you down The more you know, the faster you’ll go.

30. Use Chunking to Read Faster • Chunking is the act of reading groups of words instead of individual words. • It is hard to be a fluent reader if you just read one word at a time.

31. Chunking by an Inexperienced Reader The dog ran quicklydown the beach, attempting to catchevery seagull he sawbefore they flew away, scolding him angrily.

32. Chunking by an Advanced Reader The dog ran quickly down the beach, attempting to catch every seagull he sawbefore they flew away, scolding him angrily.

33. Chunking is a Skill Practice chunking. Over time your chunks will widen and your comprehension will increase.

34. Assignment for Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 • Read “Today’s Generations Face New Communication Gaps” (pgs. 56-59) • In your book, answer questions on pgs. 60-65 • Write two pages double spaced reflection on the different language cultures that you experience with your family. Print one copy to turn in and one to use in discussion. • We will discuss this in class • Make a list of vocabulary in the article • Words in red • Quiz on them next Wednesday

35. Assignment for Wed. Jan. 25, 2012 • Read Chapter 2: Expanding Your Vocabulary (pgs 67-121) • Start working on learning the Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes located in the Word Parts Glossary on pgs. 103-105 • Start focusing on how to identify words with context clues • Signal vs no signal words • Using logic • Denotation & connotation • EASY • Quiz on Vocab words from Chapter 1