1.2 What do Good Readers do?
Completion requirements
Reading
The formative assessments are "marked" out of 5; your mark out of 5 represents the following:
Reading
One of the most important aspects of your learning in a distance education environment is reading. You will be spending a lot of your time in this course reading the content provided online, reading a variety of texts, and reading tutorials and exemplary
materials. All of these resources are key to your success and having a clear approach to reading and strategies to choose from and to help you with your reading will be to your benefit.
The following pages and assignments are geared to introduce you to reading strategies as well as get you to practice them, as some may be new and others may be used in new ways that you hadn't thought of before.
Reading strategies help us comprehend the written word. From reading textbooks, magazine articles, or searching on the Internet, we consider the author’s purpose in creating these texts and how effectively that purpose is fulfilled.
The following pages and assignments are geared to introduce you to reading strategies as well as get you to practice them, as some may be new and others may be used in new ways that you hadn't thought of before.
Reading strategies help us comprehend the written word. From reading textbooks, magazine articles, or searching on the Internet, we consider the author’s purpose in creating these texts and how effectively that purpose is fulfilled.
The Assignment
You will now learn about different reading strategies by completing the following tasks.
Step 3: Read Rose’s Reading Strategies assignment and teacher comments in response to a comic strip “My Body” by Vicky Rabinowicz (pp. 47-49 in Sightlines 10).
Step 4: After reviewing the reading strategies and tutorials, as well as the exemplars, read “Remembrance” by Timothy Findley on pp. 64-65 inSightlines 10. As you read, employ the strategies you were given and complete the chart. If you don't know where to find the chart, review the Course Introduction and the Helpful Resources page.
Step 5: After you've completed the chart, and you have gone through the pre-reading, reading, post-reading strategies, complete the self-assessment provided. You will assess how well you put this strategy
to use in relation to the reading of "Remembrance".
Step 6: Upload your chart and your self-assessment for grading.
Extra Help
Download this bookmark for tips/questions to use while annotating with stickynotes.
Listen to an audio recording of “Remembrance.”
What do Good Readers do? Extra Challenge
Danica used a variety of reading strategies to connect multiple texts: “Self-Portrait: Variation on Van Gogh” pp. 68-69 and “Meditation xvii” on p. 2 in Sightlines 10.
Read her assignment. If you want to chart your reading using a variety of reading strategies, record your
observations on blank paper and submit it instead of the template provided.
- Name your chart Lastname, FirstnameELA101_1.2WDGRD.
- Submit for formative feedback.
- If you are submitting a Google document, copy and paste the sharing link into the online text space. Ensure share settings are set to "Anyone with the link can comment."
- If you are submitting a Word or PDF document, upload the file.
It is expected that you will download and review all of the files provided for formative assessments and that you will read, consider, and apply the suggestions to your future assignments. Learning cannot happen if you do not review all of the material, including the valuable feedback that is provided to you.
- 5-excellent
- 4-proficient
- 3-basic
- 2-developing
- 1-underdeveloped
