1 / 5

College Reading Skills II: Presentation November 3 rd , 2010

College Reading Skills II: Presentation November 3 rd , 2010. Thor Gibbins Montgomery College, Silver Spring/Takoma Park. Agenda. Lecture: Paragraph types with no topic sentences New Article Robot be Good Reading Activity-Combining Roles. 5 Types of Paragraphs with no Topic Sentences.

mikel
Download Presentation

College Reading Skills II: Presentation November 3 rd , 2010

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. College Reading Skills II: Presentation November 3rd, 2010 Thor Gibbins Montgomery College, Silver Spring/Takoma Park

  2. Agenda • Lecture: Paragraph types with no topic sentences • New Article Robot be Good • Reading Activity-Combining Roles

  3. 5 Types of Paragraphs with no Topic Sentences If there isn’t a topic sentence, it is up to you, the reader, to infer the main idea • Just The Facts (RFR p. 239) • Question & Answer (RFR p. 240) • Competing Points of View (RFR p. 241) • Comparison & Contrast ( RFR p. 242) • Results of Research (RFR p. 243 )

  4. Robot Be Good • Let’s Scan (or Survey the Article) • Do we have background knowledge on the subject? • What questions do the Authors want us to be able to answer after reading? • Now let’s read and prepare for Friday’s discussion…except you will perform all the roles of discussion: Question, Clarify, Summarize, Connect, and offer a “So What?”

  5. Homework • Homework: • Read RFR Chapter 5 pages 238-252 • Do exercises 5 & 6 • Begin Reading (SQ3R) Robot be Good; identify topic sentences if any and paraphrase main ideas of paragraphs

More Related