progress check 1
Progress Check #1
ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES (50 Points)
PART A: List the five active reading strategies. Explain each strategy in one or two sentences. (5 pts. each for a total of 25 pts).
1. Predicting – Predicting is making an educated guess on the essay, text, chapter, or article that you are about to read by reading the title and the first or second sentence of a paragraph to predict what that passage is going to be about.
2. Visualizing – Visualizing is making what you are reading become images and seeing it in your mind how the event is happening. It is better to use while reading a novel and visualizing when you read everything that is happening.
3. Making Connections – Making Connections is when you compare what you know to what you are reading to be able to understand it better.
4. Questioning – Questioning is when you are reading and something is unfamiliar and you don’t understand like a certain word or a statement so you question to yourself about what it meant and do research to figure it out and help you understand it.
5. Summarizing – Summarizing is what you do when you are finished reading. You gather all the information and give out the main idea of what you just read in one or two sentences explaining hat that whole passage, chapter, or article was all about.
PART B: Identify the strategies being modeled in the following passage. (10 pts.)
Computer Viruses
A computer virus is programmed to raid and attack existing computer programs. The virus is sent by an e-mail or activated through a download. The virus program then infects the whole computer system. The virus attaches itself to other programs in the computer and copies itself. Some computer viruses are terrible; they erase files or lock up systems. Viruses must not go untreated.
[From Henry, The Skilled Reader, 2004, p. 8]
1. I think it will be about computer viruses.
Predicting
2. How
ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES (50 Points)
PART A: List the five active reading strategies. Explain each strategy in one or two sentences. (5 pts. each for a total of 25 pts).
1. Predicting – Predicting is making an educated guess on the essay, text, chapter, or article that you are about to read by reading the title and the first or second sentence of a paragraph to predict what that passage is going to be about.
2. Visualizing – Visualizing is making what you are reading become images and seeing it in your mind how the event is happening. It is better to use while reading a novel and visualizing when you read everything that is happening.
3. Making Connections – Making Connections is when you compare what you know to what you are reading to be able to understand it better.
4. Questioning – Questioning is when you are reading and something is unfamiliar and you don’t understand like a certain word or a statement so you question to yourself about what it meant and do research to figure it out and help you understand it.
5. Summarizing – Summarizing is what you do when you are finished reading. You gather all the information and give out the main idea of what you just read in one or two sentences explaining hat that whole passage, chapter, or article was all about.
PART B: Identify the strategies being modeled in the following passage. (10 pts.)
Computer Viruses
A computer virus is programmed to raid and attack existing computer programs. The virus is sent by an e-mail or activated through a download. The virus program then infects the whole computer system. The virus attaches itself to other programs in the computer and copies itself. Some computer viruses are terrible; they erase files or lock up systems. Viruses must not go untreated.
[From Henry, The Skilled Reader, 2004, p. 8]
1. I think it will be about computer viruses.
Predicting
2. How