Teaching effective reading skills to college students Some

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Teaching effective reading skills to college
students

• Some practical
• suggestions

Dr. Andrew Finch, ?????, ????, ?????

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What is reading?
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What is reading?
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What is reading?
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What is reading?
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Why do we read?

• Information
• Information/pleasure
• Pure pleasure
• Exams !!!

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What do we read?

• Books
• Newspapers, Magazines
• Photocopies, articles
• Notices
• Correspondence
• Forms, Signs
• Handheld media devices
• Computer screens
• Multi-media carriers

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What is the content?

• Fiction (long and short)
• Songs
• Plays
• Current events, feature articles and essays
• Academic articles, reports, reviews
• Warnings, directions
• Letters, postcards and notes
• Business letters, solicitations
• T-shirt messages, bumper stickers
• Raw data

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What is the content?

• Poetry
• (Auto)biography
• Schedules
• Maps
• Menus
• Advertisements
• Announcements
• Comics
• Workbook exercises
• Bibliographic information

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What is the text structure?

• Charts, graphs, illustrations
• Isolated lines of text
• Free form
• Interlinear notes
• Point and click images
• Expository
• Narrative
• Headings, subheadings

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What skills do we use?

• Skimming
• Scanning
• Extraction of specific information
• In-depth (extensive) reading
• Metacognition
• (Hudson, 2007, p. 27)

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Comprehension skills

• Recalling word meanings
• Drawing inferences about a meaning of a word
  from context
• Finding answers to questions answered explicitly
  or merely in paraphrase
• Weaving together ideas from content
• Drawing inferences from content
• Recognizing a writers purpose, attitude, tone,
  and mood
• Identifying a writers technique
• Following the structure of a passage.
• (Davis, 1968)

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1 Extensive reading

• Extensive reading foundation www.erfoundation.org
  /index.html/
• Extensive reading pages www.extensivereading.net
  /er/er.html
• Video of Dr. R. Days talk about
  ER/IRwww.sendspace.com/file/nq6ydr
• Rocky Nelsons resources
• http//nelson.myfastmail.com/Extensive Reading/
• http//nelson.myfastmail.com/Intensive Reading
  Content Based/

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Class library
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2 Graded readers
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• The aim of graded reading

• To recycle important and useful wordsand grammar
  and to aid acquisition
• To provide continuous reading practice
• To build reading speed
• To be enjoyable
• To encourage reading for pleasure
• To build DEPTH of knowledge

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Literary fiction
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Movies
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Non-fiction
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Reading at the right level

• Students MUST read at their comfortable reading
  level so they
• can read quickly
• can read fluently
• can read a lot
• can read with very high levels of understanding
• can enjoy the reading
• can get the reading habit.
• If students read something too difficult
• the reading becomes slow
• they cant read much
• the students get tired easily
• it becomes a form of study

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Reading comics and cartoons
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Comics and cartoons
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Comics and cartoons
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Comics and cartoons
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Cartoons Tintin
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Using literature Novels

• Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
• http//www.literature.org/authors/dickens-charles/
  christmas-carol/
• http//etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DicChr
  i.html
• http//www.asksam.com/ebooks/Dickens/Christmas_Car
  ol.asp
• http//www.online-literature.com/dickens/christmas
  carol/
• http//www.longmankorea.com/detail.aspx?ISBN05824
  21209 (graded reader)
• http//books.mirror.org/gb.dickens.html
• http//wiredforbooks.org/carol/content.htm
  (audio)
• http//welchwrite.com/blog/audio/2008/christmas-c
  arol-2008.mp3 (audio)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-hA5T1G7rxg
  (YouTube video)
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vuwii8AMfgkAfeature
  related (YouTube, part 2)
• http//www.teachers.tv/video/30574 (Dickens
  Museum)

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Using literature Drama

• Henrik Ibsen A Dolls House
• http//books.google.co.kr/
• http//www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/
• http//www.gradesaver.com/a-dolls-house/
• http//www.enotes.com/dollshouse
• http//www.bibliomania.com/0/6/322/2393/frameset.h
  tml
• Video
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqssF73w6thw

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E-books (Handout)
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Online reading (Handout)

• English Lit http//www.english-literature.org/res
  ources/
• Fictionwise http//www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/fre
  ebooks.htm
• Free Books http//www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
  
• Free online books http//www.freeonlinebooks.org/
  
• Litrix http//www.litrix.com/authors.htm
• Manybooks http//manybooks.net/
• Memoware http//www.memoware.com/
• Microsoft http//www.mslit.com/default.asp?src...
  iniaLibr ary
• Microsoft reader http//www.microsoft.com/Reader/
  
• O'Reilly Open Book http//www.oreilly.com/openboo
  k/
• Online Book Page http//onlinebooks.library.upenn
  .edu/
• Page by page books http//www.pagebypagebooks.com
  /
• Project Gutenberg http//www.gutenberg.org/wiki/M
  ain_Page

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Integrated reading

• Holistic approach
• All four skills
• Pre-reading, while-reading, post-reading
• Graded tasks
• Critical thinking
• Problem-solving
• Online follow up
• Active English Discussion

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Online newspapers
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Online newspapers
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Online print media
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Blogs
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More blogs
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Finally

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