SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT 2012-2013 High School English 9th – 12th grade OSNAS students are required to read two novels if placed in an English Regular’s or Honor’s class and three novels if placed in an AP English class: Several grades will be given for the summer reading. Dialectical response journals for each book (rubric attached). Exams on the assigned novels within the first days of school. In class essay questions on each of the novels. 9th Grade Regulars and Honors - Reading Assignment:
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Close Reading There are those things in life that hardly take any time to become an expert at. Close Reading is not one of those things. Close reading can most simply be defined as the technique of taking a piece of writing piece by piece and hyper-analyzing every little bit of it. The concept may not seem too difficult and complex‚ however‚ most of the thinking behind it is metacognition. Metacognition is the word for thinking about the way you think. Both of these concepts are incredibly important
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Module II Lesson 1 Curriculum Design Model Introduction As a TEACHER‚ one has to be a: – curriculum designer – curriculum implementer – curriculum evaluator HORIZON TAL ARRANGEMENT VERTICAL ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT-CENTERED DESIGN MODEL This model focuses on the content of the curriculum. The subject centered design corresponds mostly of the textbook‚ written for the specific subject. Henry Morrison
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something about reading‚ writing‚ and literacy. In fact‚ our understanding of what literacy is varies widely. Jeanne Chall concluded in Learning to Read: the Great Debate (1983)‚ that children get a better start in reading if they are taught phonics because they break the code that links what they hear with what they see in print. Harvard Professor Jeanne Chall has outlined the stages of reading development that begin at preschool age and continue until university age. The stages of reading development
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The Omnipresence of Reading Reading is part of everyday life and a necessity. We read every day even when we are not aware that we are. We are introduced to reading and start reading since the day we are born‚ I may even say that even so when we are in our mother’s womb. Reading is first done by our nervous system in our body. A newborn is capable of feeling things such as pain. Take a sleeping newborn and pinch him. The nervous system will pick up the action and send the signal to the brain‚ where
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1 Findings FINDINGS 1. English is the most preferred language for reading; Mother tongue claimed the 2nd spot with 48% preferring to read in their mother tongue against 46% preferring Hindi. 2. Preferences of activities (PUMBA Vs Non-PUMBA) [where candidates were asked to rank their preferences on a 1-5 ranking scale] shows that: a. PUMBA candidates rank better on Reading and TV watching over other than PUMBA institutes. b. Other than PUMBA institutes rank higher on Music listening and chatting
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Year 1 to 3: Reading Methodology: Oral Recitation Lesson * The Oral Recitation Lesson (ORL) is an instructional procedure that incorporates direct and indirect instruction during small-group reading instruction. ORL helps the teachers to use it easily with basal reading programs‚ especially with students who experience difficulty in learning to read. * ORL is a part of fluency improving
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW A. Reading Comprehension 1. The Definition of Reading Comprehension There are many experts who give the definition of reading. One of them is Aebersold and Field. They say: “...‚ reading is what happens when people look at a text and assign meaning to the written symbols in that text‚ further‚ the text and the reader are the two physical entities necessary for the reading process to begin (1997: 15).” It means that when someone sees written symbols in
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AESTHETIC READING: READING FOR APPRECIATION AND ENJOYMENT Aesthetic reading is for entertainment. * Reading to explore one. * In Aesthetic reading‚ the reader’s attention is centered directly on what he likes through during his relationship with that particular text.” * Non-academicals purposes of reading. Aesthetic Stance is for experience * Recreational reading. * Fulfills an important function in lives. * Reading for pleasure or aesthetic reading‚ been described as “the
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The Nature of the Reading Process Reading is a complex process; it is not about identifying words but also about understanding them. Reading requires attending to the environment‚ encoding and interacting with the stimulus in a meaningful manner and linking the meanings of the stimulus with existing knowledge and prior experiences. Thinking Reading is a thinking process; it is not just about calling or recognizing the words on a page but understanding what was read. Therefore the reader
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