THU LE
Read95
10/23/2010
Student Learning Objectives for READ 95
1. Look for a chapter that you believe could help you improve your reading for college texts. Write the chapter name and why you selected it.
I looked through the textbook, and I think that chapter 1, Active Reading and Thinking Strategies, could help me improve my reading for college texts. Reading involves much more than moving my eyes across lines of print, recognizing words and reading sentences. Therefore, to have the good reading skills to prepare for studying in college, I must have the good strategies.
I saw that this chapter shows the strategies which could help me improve some new skills in reading before I study college classes.
2. Read through the chapter and write why you believe this section will help you improve your reading abilities.
I believe this section will help me improve my reading abilities because this chapter expresses the way to be successful readers with the active strategies. I read those strategies and I saw that it is very helpful to help me concentrate and understand easier and faster. For example, before reading a assignment, I should preview something about this assignment by reading the title of that assignment, checking its author and source, reading the introduction or first paragraph, noting any typographical aids or reading quickly any end-of-article and end-of-chapter material. After previewing, I should take a moment to think about what I already read about the topic. This is my background knowledge. This chapter also shows me how to activate my background knowledge. Besides, this chapter mention about disengagement strategies, such as: positive tone, negative identity management, justification, behavioral de-escalation and de-escalation. In short, I think that with those knowledge this chapter will help me improve something in my reading abilities,
3. What additional help could you use to improve your reading that you do not believe are covered in the textbook section you chose. Optional question
Although this chapter has a lot of helpful knowledge to help me improve my reading skills in this quarter, it still has some skills that don’t mention, such as: how to recognize organization of the essays or paragraphs or how to recognize the main idea in each of paragraph. These factors are also one of the good ways to have the better reading skills. If readers consider organization of assignments, they will be easier to follow and understand them. Recognizing main ideals in paragraphs will help readers remember what assignment talk about and understand main ideals of assignments.
Finally, Chapter 1 and the other chapters in this book are helpful and they help me a lot of things to have the good reading skills after this quarter.
