Reading 2 Course Portfolio
Instructor: Prof. Reima Al-Jarf
Credit hours: 4
Prerequisites: Reading I.
Textbook: Hartman, Pamela & Kirn, Elaine (2004) Interactions 2. Middle East Edition (Gold Edition). McGraw-Hill.
Marks: 100 (50 for semester work + 50% for final exam)
Semester work: 25% interms + 25% interm.
Brief Description:
The course aims at developing the students' ability to read and comprehend the main ideas and details that are explicitly and implicitly stated in a text and to develop their ability to infer the meaning of difficult words from context, recognize the text structure and connect pronouns with their referents.
Audiovisuals:
- Course videos are not available.
- Would like to use the overhead projector , but I need a classroom with curtains to darken it.
- I am unable to use the LCD projector because only two are available and they are used by the computer instructors and by Dr Hoda Brinji. The lab schedule is almost full.
Material Coverage:
Total reading teaching hours in the fall semester 2009 = 14 X4 = 46 hours
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Content to Be Covered |
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Chapter 1 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 2 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 3 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 4 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 5 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 6 |
6 hours |
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Chapter 7 |
5 hours |
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Chapter 8 |
5 hours |
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Chapter 9 |
5 hours |
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Chapter 10 |
5 hours |
Reading Skills to be Mastered:
o Previewing the topic and vocabulary
o Previewing the reading
o Identifying the topic and main idea
o Identifying supporting details
o Understanding conclusions
o Skimming for the topic and main idea
o Predicting content of a reading
o Scanning
o Marking text while reading
o Recognizing summaries in a reading
o Understanding italics and quotation marks
o Identifying the main ideas and writing summaries of each paragraph in a reading
Critical Thinking Skills:
o Relating a reading passage to a broader world view
o Summarizing a paragraph
o Organizing information using a T-chart
o Organizing details using a grphic organizer
o Summarizing a paragraph
o Understanding contrast
o Identifying problems and solutions
o Comparing and contrasting
o Making inferences
o Understanding irony
o Analyzing advertisements
o Identifying cause and effect
o Organizing cause and effect using a graphic organizer
o Understanding proverbs and quotations
o Expressing and supporting an opinion
o Studying for exams: organizing information
o Understanding the literal and figurative meanings of words
o Organizing information using an outline
o Identifying and making inferences
o Analyzing diagrams and photographs
o Distinguishing facts from assumptions
o Distinguishing facts from opinions
o Synthesizing and applying information from a reading
o Categorizing
Getting meaning from context:
o Guessing meaning from punctuation, other sentences, logic, examples, opposites, and “in other words”, “e.g. & i.e.”,
o Identifying words and phrases that work together
o Using prepositions
o Understanding the meaning of italics in readings
o Understanding and looking up parts of speech in a dictionary
o Understanding adjectives and noun phrases
o Understanding and creating compound words
o Analyzing suffixes and prefixes
o Understanding dictionary entries: words with single and multiple meanings
o Understanding idioms
o Focusing on expressions and idioms
o Using participles as adjectives
o Understanding homophones
o Understanding words in phrases
o Recognizing words with similar meanings
o Understanding general and specific words
o Understanding connotations
o Putting words into categories
o Analyzing word roots and affixes
Pronoun Reference:
o Understanding pronoun reference
o Connecting pronouns with their referents at the word, phrase and sentence levels.
Applying information:
o Applying information in the reading to personal situations
Reading Teaching Technique
- I illustrate the structure of the passage. Draw a tree diagram to show the topic and subtopics of each paragraph and fill it out as I read each paragraph and move on from one paragraph to the next.
- Read text paragraph by paragraph.
- Read paragraph and analyzing it sentence by sentence. Point out topic sentences, signaling devices, context clues, ask about the part of speech of certain words, ask about pronoun antecedents. As I read, I have students underline difficult words, topic sentence, number details, circle words that signal structure and pronouns. Students underline key words in each point.
- Before doing each exercise, I read the instructions and have students underline the definitions and main points and circle the question word. The students write the answer in class in pencil and I go around and check. Wrong answers are discussed in class. We do some exercises orally for a change.
Reading Assessment:
§ Each interm test will consist of a 1-2 page text and several questions testing the reading skills mentioned above. From the text, the students will be asked to:
o Identify the topic and main idea
o Identify supporting details
o Predict content of a reading
o Identify the main ideas and writing summaries of each paragraph in a reading
o Summarize a paragraph
o Organize information using a T-chart
o Organize details using a graphic organizer
o Identify problems and solutions
o Compare and contrasting
o Identify and making inferences
o Understand irony
o Analyze advertisements
o Identify cause and effect
o Organize cause and effect using a graphic organizer
o Understand proverbs and quotations
o Express and supporting an opinion
o Understand the literal and figurative meanings of words
o Organize information using an outline
o Analyze diagrams and photographs
o Distinguish facts from assumptions and opinions
o Synthesize and applying information from a reading
o Categorizing
o Guess meaning from context
o Identify parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, prepositions, advers) and compounds.
o Understand and create compound words
o Analyze word roots, suffixes and prefixes
o Understand idioms
o Understand homophones
o Recognize words with similar meanings
o Understand general and specific words
o Understand connotations
o Put words into categories
o Connect pronouns with their referents at the word, phrase and sentence levels.
Reading Study skills:
- Reading textbook design and Chapter format.
- Using the dictionary
- Dividing notebook into sections.
- Preparing vocabulary cards.
- How to practice and review a chapter.
- Building a daily, weekly and monthly study schedule.
Extensive Reading & Listening:
- Each student will bring a story/book of her choice to class. An extra reading hour is given in the garden, where the students and I bring stories, magazines and other books. We discuss and each student gives a 5-minute summary of her book.
- Students are asked to read a story for half an hour a day.
- Students are asked to watch T.V. news (BBC or CNN for 15-30 minutes a day.
Online Course:
- An online course will be used. It will provide students with extra practice. Reading texts, short stories and comprehension exercises will be posted. The students will locate information, texts and write their reactions in the discussion forum.
To Learn Pronunciation (Click to Download any Text to Speech Software):
- To improve the students’ pronunciation, the students will download one of the text-to-speech software available such as:
Reading Websites:
Reading websites that the students can check:
o One Look Dictionary: http://www.onelook.com/
Self-improvement:
الاستذكار فن وعلم - ملزمة
الاستذكار فن وعلم - عرض باوربوينت
الاستعداد للامتحانات - ملزمة
الاستعداد للامتحانات - عرض باوربوينت
تنظيم الوقت - عرض باوربوينت
كيف تنجزين الكثير في وقت قليل
التعلم الذاتي
Download Reading Practice Test (please click twice)
Fall Semester Calendar (1430 H – 2009)
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Oct. 3 – 7 |
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Oct. 10 – 14 |
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Oct 31 – 4 |
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Nov 7 – 11 |
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Nov 14 –18 |
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Nov 19- Dec 4 |
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Dec. 5 – 9 |
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Dec 12 – 16 |
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Dec 19 – 23 |
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Dec 26 – 30 |
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Jan. 2 – 6 |
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Jan. 9 – 13 |
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Jan. 16 – 20 |
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Jan. 23 – 27 |
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Final Exams |
Jan 30 – Feb 3 |
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Feb 6 – 10 |
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Feb 11- Feb 19 |
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Interm I Exam Schedule (Fall 2009)
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Course |
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Time |
Room |
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2A |
Vocabulary2 |
Mon, Nov 16, 2009 |
2-3 p.m. |
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2A |
Reading2 |
Sun, Nov 15, 1009 |
8-10 a.m. |
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2C |
Reading2 |
Sun, Nov 15, 1009 |
8-10 a.m. |
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Interm II Exam Schedule (Fall 2009)
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Course |
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Time |
Room |
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2A |
Vocabulary2 |
Mon, Jan 12, 2009 |
2-3 p.m. |
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Reading2 |
Sun, Jan 10, 1009 |
1-3 p.m. |
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2C |
Reading2 |
Sun, Jan 10, 1009 |
1-3 p.m. |
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