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Title: Critical Reading Skills


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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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References
  • Time4Learning, http//www.time4learning.com/contac
    tUs.htm
  • Wiki Books, http//en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
  • Rocket Reader, http//www.rocketreader.com/downloa
    d/RocketReaderDownload.html
  • OSPI, http//www.k12.wa.us/

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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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