Active Reading Accelerated Reading - DVR0061

1. LALINDA STREET
PROFESSOR
DVR 0061
DVR 0061

2. AGENDA
Introduction
Course Syllabus
Group Activity
 Reading Analysis
Applications
Homework

3. Syllabus OverviewTransition by
exploring the syllabus
and completing
questions to follow.

4. READING ANALYSIS

5. Reading Analysis Group Activity
Think about the following question:
1. What is reading?

6. 2. What percentage of American adults are unable to
read at an eighth grade level?

7. 3. What grade level does the average American read?
4. What percentage of Americans are illiterate?

8. 5. Discuss/Write why reading is a major problem in
America?

9. Reading Analysis Group Activity
6. If you can’t read do words have meaning?
7. What are three primary purposes for reading?

10. Reading Analysis Group Activity
9. What different skills and strategies do you need to
accomplish these varied purposes for reading?

11. Reading Analysis Group Activity
10. What do you expect we will do in this course to
help you develop these skills and strategies?

12. 1. reading is…
2. 50% of Americans don’t read at an 8th
grade level
3. The Average American reads at a 7th
grade level
4. 14% of Americans are illiterate (can’t read)
5. answers may vary
6. answers may vary
7. Read to search, pleasure, general comprehension, learn
or integrate information
9. Answers may vary
10. Answers may vary

13. Active Reading

14. “GOOD READERS’ STRATEGIES”
"How can you tell when someone is a good reader?
What do you think teachers look for when they are
trying to understand how well someone reads?”
Active reading is defined as being involved with
material they are reading. Think, question,
challenge, criticize, and take specific steps to
understand, remember and evaluate what they read.

15. READING
SIMULATION
Watch the video below and see if
you are able to answer the six
questions that follow accurately.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o

16. LALINDA STREET
PRINCE GEORGE’S COMMUNITY COLLEGE
DVR061
UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURE:
ACTIVE READING

17. -What is the figure
doing?
-What do you notice
about him?
-This statue is called The
Thinker, and it is in
Paris. It is bigger than
life-size and carved of
stone. What do you think
the artist’s message is?
-Why did he choose this
particular method of
sending it?
-Now think about why
you are here? What is
your motivation for
being in college?

18. ACTIVE READING
Like the image of The Thinker effective reading requires
that individuals have a clear understanding of why you
are reading an assigned passage and what your learning
goals are for reading.
Reading is an active thinking process of
understanding an author’s ideas, connecting those
ideas to what you already know and organizing all
the ideas so you can remember and use them.

19. PURPOSE OF READING
There are several possible purposes for reading:

reading to search for specific information

reading for pleasure

reading for general comprehension
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reading to learn

reading to integrate information

20. BEFORE DURING AND AFTER READING

21. SURVEYING AND PREVIEWING A READING
The purpose of reading strategies is to recognize how
an author has structured a reading.
Two important reading strategies are:
 Surveying
 Previewing – allows for the reader to skim the reading more
closely and allows for readers to determine important features
of the passage.
 Turn to textbook page 108-109

22. SURVEYING
a technique that allows for you to quickly scan the
materials to determine what you already know about
the topic. It also allows for you to connect to your
prior knowledge and readies your brain to receive
new information.

23. Surveying
Surveying the
text means
looking at the
table of contents,
at chapter
headings, titles,
boldfaced words,
subheadings at
summaries,
abstracts or
graphics, for an
overview of
content and
purpose.

24. Let’s Practice
Using Surveying
1. Read the title and ask yourself: What is this reading
about?
2. Ask yourself: What do I already know about this topic?
3. Predict what you think the reading will be about
4. Flip through the reading and read the headings and
captions. Look at the diagrams or pictures.
5. Turn the title and headings into questions to hone in
on content and organization
6. Scan for words you don’t know and circle them.
7. Repeat step #3. What do you now think the reading
will cover?

25. PREVIEWING
Allows for the reader to skim the reading more closely and allows
for readers to determine important features of the passage.
While you may survey a textbook in its entirety, you preview only
a section of the chapter at a time.
Previewing requires that you read a significant parts of the passage.
Requires that you look at the introduction

26. PREVIEWING A READING
1. Read the title
2. Read the first
paragraph
3. Reading the first
sentence of each of
the middle
paragraphs
4. Reading the entire
concluding paragraph

27. DIRECTIONS:
READ THE SELECTION FOCUSING ON KEY
COMPONENTS AS EXPRESSED BY PREVIEWING
STRATEGY
BE READY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS
Let’s Practice
Using Previewing

28. Malcolm X- Learning to Read
Preview the text using PDR worksheet
Read the selection – take note to key information
Answer questions that follow

29. Access to Blackboard
Ch. 6 Exercise 12 pp. 120 (create guide questions)
Ch. 6 Exercise 16 pp. 123 (answer the guided that
you created)
Read pages 506 – 509
I will scan these documents and post on blackboard
by 1:00 under (Course Documents)
DUE Tuesday