Welcome to Resources
for Readers
I have developed these handouts through years of research and through teaching reading, writing, and literature.
Here you will find some of the handouts that will help students gain control of their reading ability.
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Book Review
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Comprehension | |||||||||||||
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Context Clues | |||||||||||||
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Guest Book | |||||||||||||
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Increasing Reading Rate | |||||||||||||
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Journal | |||||||||||||
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Language Use | |||||||||||||
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Memorization | |||||||||||||
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Summaries
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The Reading Process
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Four Reasons for Comprehension Failure
The majority of reading problems stem from lack of comprehension and reading slowly. Thus, this site is dedicated to helping you learn to read faster and to start trusting your ability to read in preparation for your academic success. The curriculum is designed around the idea that you need successful strategies in order to become more efficient in reading.
The four most common reasons for lack of comprehension:
1. failure to understand a word;
2. failure to understand a sentence; (
3. failure to understand how sentences relate to one another;
4. failure to understand how information fits together in a meaningful way.
To address these issues we will make use of:
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timed readings to help students discover that not knowing each word does not detract from understanding the main idea of a piece, as well as encouraging them to read in "chunks" of meaning | |
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weekly summary writing to aid in grasping the entire meaning, instead of focusing on discrete words | |
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discovering and exploring the differences between syntactic and semantic context clues | |
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learning the difference between general and specialized vocabulary, then practicing some ways to work with each, i.e., roots, prefixes, suffixes, and semantic mapping | |
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evaluating the discrete parts of an article or essay, i.e., thesis statements, topic sentences, methods of development within each paragraph | |
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evaluating articles and essays holistically to find purpose: to persuade, to inform or to entertain; knowing these help with discovering the main idea | |
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reviewing the reading process | |
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reading in-depth from a textbook increase comprehension and reading strategies |
