Reading Skills Portfolio
(Total Value 5%)


Due Date:

 

MONDAY/WEDNESDAY CLASS: 4/8/09

 

TUESDAY/THURSDAY CLASS: 4/9/09

 

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Reading Skills Workshops:

These workshops will dramatically increase your skills in the following areas:

1) Read faster
2) Increase comprehension.
3) Remember better what you read
4) Optimize note-taking skills for study


Reading Skills Portfolio:

In a pocket folder you will turn in the following:

1) On the Timings Handout for Speed Reading you should record a bare minimum of thirty timings. The purpose is to demonstrate your semester-long progress in reading speed and comprehension.
2) A series of pages of your reading notes over the various texts you have read this semester. You must use the grid-format I have taught during class, and the bare minimum number of pages turned in should be thirty.

During our reading skills workshops I will teach you how to take notes and record your reading speed.


Grading Criteria:

·         Neatness and accuracy.

·         Whether the notes square with guidelines established during class lectures.

·         The depth and scope of the work. In other words, are you handing in just enough to get by, or does your portfolio demonstrate that you have indeed practiced these skills throughout the course of the semester?

·         The note-taking grid should be the size of the 8 ½ x 11page, and only one note-taking grid per page will be accepted, so if you include more than one note-taking grid per page, you will lose credit.

 


Final Note:

There is no need to assign you any extra work to practice these skills, for you are surely enrolled in other courses this semester. As such, you have much reading to do. Simply use assignments from your other classes to practice these skills, and you will, then, have increased your reading speed, comprehension, retention, and you will have extremely useful notes that you can use to study for final exams in all your other classes. Do not, however, turn in to me the only copy of your notes. I take no responsibility for their accidental loss or for accidental damage to them.

Also, please understand that although I can teach you these skills, just learning them is not, in and of itself, a magic bullet. In other words, for you to achieve maximum results you must practice outside of class. These are powerful skills that will enable you to spend less time on your schoolwork while achieving much higher grades. If you practice for four hours a week, the results will be dynamic.

Due Date:

 

MONDAY/WEDNESDAY CLASS: 4/8/09

 

TUESDAY/THURSDAY CLASS: 4/9/09

 

NO TURNITIN.COM SUBMISSION