College Reading Success
Wednesdays -- 5:00 -
6:30 --Tate Page Hall 304
Thursdays -- 5:00 - 6:30 --Tate Page Hall 330
List of Graduate Students and their TOPICS of FOCUS - CRS students SELECT which topics of focus they need.
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Graduate Student - Amanda Turner
TPH: 338 Topic: Vocabulary Development: Exercise and strengthen your vocabulary through the use of word play, context clues, and other language activities. Focus: word play using activities such as crossword puzzles, hink pinks, idioms, scrambled words and figurative language |
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Graduate Student - Brandon Minton:
TPH 404 Topic: Building Background Knowledge for Deep Comprehension Focus: In my lessons we will develop a broad range of skills to unlock and build upon the background information that we already have about various types of media. We will use text, video, technology, and hands on activities to gain new experiences and insight into what we read. |
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Graduate Student - Rachel Hanger TPH 215 Topic: Motivation and Comprehension through Trade Books Focus: I want to use trade books, along with strategies such as utilizing schema, accessing background/prior knowledge, questioning, etc. to develop reading comprehension. My other intent is to help ESL students develop or enhance motivation to read books outside of required texts using book/character talks, timelines, using the Library in TPH, using the Internet to find and evaluate readings, etc. |
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Graduate Student - Marilyn Dyer TPH
304 Topic: FORMAT – We will discuss both fiction and non-fiction texts. Focus: Emphasis will be on keys to comprehending different types of material – author’s purpose, story structure, cause/effect relationships, context clues, etc. We will also look at navigational methods through the internet and the formatting of various websites. |
- All CRS read and SIGN contract (Lesley)
- All 523 Graduate Students describe their TOPIC and FOCUS for the semester and announce next week's LESSON TITLE
- All CRS students take this survey: http://www.pampetty.com/collegereadingsurvey.htm (Grad Students TPH 215)
- All CRS students take this survey: http://www.vark-learn.com/subscription/default.asp?access=WKU (Grad Students 215)
- Amanda Turner - Lesson Title: Becoming a "Word Sleuth": Finding Clues in the Context -- Four types of context clues will be discussed. Students will be given a chance to practice "discovering" the meaning of words embedded in a variety of literature excerpts.
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Marilyn Dyer - Lesson Title: Becoming a Better Reader: Using the Context as a Clue
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Brandon Minton - Lesson Title: What do you really know about what you're reading?
Amanda Turner - Room 338: "To, Too, and Two". We will explore homonyms, homophones, homographs, and heteronyms. We are going to study some of the words that make the English language so confusing with like spellings, sounds, and meanings.
Marilyn Dyer - TPH 304 - Title: "Understanding Text Structure". We will look at the five different types of organizational patterns: description; sequence; cause/ effect; problem/ solution; and compare/ contrast. By understanding how a text is organized and looking for "signal" or "key" words, comprehension of material will increase. We will practice by reading several articles to determine their structure and discuss our understanding of the content.
Rachel Hanger - Lesson Title: You. Me. Us: Crossing the Bridge of the Cultural gap (session 1 of 2) TPH 215. The purpose of this session is to focus on how our background and prior experiences affects the ability to comprehend text when reading. Done in a round-table format, participants are encouraged to share their own reading experiences and challenges currently being faced in regards to background knowledge relating to reading comprehension. This session will end with a book talk, with participants encouraged to attend the 2nd session next week.
Brandon Minton - Room 404 -
Title: Using the Internet to Build Background Knowledge. This
week I will discuss the Internet as a source for knowledge within our
Literacy tasks. I will discuss websites and strategies to use to
effectively build schema and knowledge about expository reading tasks.
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Presented by Dr. Pamela Petty and Graduate Students
5 March 2008
5:30pm - 6:30pm, 7:00pm - 8:00pm (repeat sessions)
DUC A330 at The Learning Center.
LTCY 523 students: Proposal for Project Due