Effective College Reading
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 146
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 146
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Welcome to your new world of reading at the college level!
Effective College Reading is a text workbook (a combination of a textbook and workbook format) that has been designed to assist you on this academia journey. This text is divided and sub-divided into best practices and college-level textbook excerpts gathered from college and university learning centers and developmental reading courses from across the country. In addition, several years as a literacy studies instructor at a four-year institution has guided the content presentation.
Whether it’s understanding course content, finding time to study, or struggling to balance academic demands with work, personal responsibilities, and social experiences… the new norm is that students face a number of academic challenges in college.
Effective College Reading focuses on how to address these time demands and academic challenges by learning, practicing, and applying effective reading strategies that are integral to successful academia and equally important outside academic contexts.
Preface: To Instructors
Introduction: To Students
Dedication
SECTION ONE Assessing SELF Strategies for Effective College Reading
1.1 An Overview: The College Reader and Reading
1.1 Review Exercise
1.2 Self-awareness
1.2a Emotional Intelligence
1.2b Metacognition
1.2c Self-schema
1.2d Personality Traits
1.2e Self-Motivation
1.2f Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
1.2g Multiple Intelligence
1.2h Learning Styles
1.2 Review Exercise
1.3 Accessing Your Background Knowledge
1.3a READ, READ, READ!
1.3b Building Your Word Bank
1.3 Review Exercise
1.4 Making Connections: Text-to-Self
1.4 Review Exercise
SECTION ONE: KEY POINTS (Summary)
SECTION TWO Actively Reading, Engaging, and Questioning
2.1 Active College Reading and Engagement
2.1a Active versus Passive LEARNERS
2.1b Reading Methods
2.1c Before, During, and After Reading
2.1d Textbook and Syllabus
2.1 Review Exercise
2.2 Effective Questioning
2.2a Questioning Reading Purpose
2.2b Questioning Thinking and Learning
2.2 Review Exercise
2.3 Questioning to Study and Learn
2.3a Questioning Textbook Features
2.3b Questioning Text Structures
2.3c Questioning Signal Words/Phrases
2.3 Review Exercise
SECTION TWO: KEY POINTS (Summary)
SECTION THREE Comprehension: Constructing Meaning
3.1 An Overview: Constructing Meaning
3.1a Content-Specific Vocabulary
3.1 Review Exercise
3.2 Writing as You Read: Notetaking
3.2a Annotating
3.2b Graphic Organizing: Drawings That Construct Meaning
3.2c Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Outlining
3.2d Notetaking: Lecture/Class Discussion
3.2 Review Exercise
3.3 Questioning the Author
3.3a Author’s Purpose?
3.3b Author’s Tone?
3.3c Author’s Main Idea/Details?
3.3d Making Connections: Text-to-Text
3.3 Review Exercise
SECTION THREE: KEY POINTS (Summary)
SECTION FOUR Critical Reading, Thinking, and Responding Strategies
4.1 Critical Reading and Thinking
4.1 Review Exercise
4.2 Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
4.2 Review Exercise
4.3 Persuasive versus Argumentative Texts
4.3a Persuasion in Advertising
4.3b Academic Arguments: Social Justice Issues
4.3 Review Exercise
4.4 Cross-examining Argumentative Texts
4.4a Critically Analyzing and Synthesizing
4.4b Analyzing versus Synthesizing
4.4 Review Exercise
4.5 Making Inferences and Drawing Conclusions
4.5a Inferences and Visual Literacy
4.5 Review Exercise
4.6 Constructing Meaning: Using Reasoning/Logic
4.6a Recognizing Fallacies
4.6b Detecting Propaganda
4.6c Making Connections: Text-to-World
4.6 Review Exercise
SECTION FOUR: KEY POINTS (Summary)
Student Ancillary Site
Section One: Assessing SELF Strategies for Effective College Reading
Handouts/Documents
Checking Understanding
Extended Learning
Section Two: Actively Reading, Engaging, and Questioning
Handouts/Documents
Checking Understanding
Extended Learning
Section Three: Comprehension: Constructing Meaning
Handouts/Documents
Checking Understanding
Extended Learning
Section Four: Critical Reading, Thinking, and Responding Strategies
Handouts/Documents
Checking Understanding
Extended Learning