Agenda

Our Goal: We want the class to become better readers.


Objectives – Students should be able to...

• identify important information
• identify key terms
• have a better understanding of the reading materials assigned

Activities: [we'll elaborate more on these later]

• group competitions where students will be asked to identify key words and find the main idea of the given passage
• individual speed reading tests to calculate their WPM (words per minute) reading speed
• close reading to look deeper into the passages for better understanding (highlighting symbolism)

Assignments:

• individual reading competitions to work on reading comprehension
• comprehension questions (for homework) – will continue from the short reading passages given in class

Meeting Times:

• A-Day – 9:30
• E-Day – 12:30
• F-Day – 9:30 or 1:30

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Day 1: (15 minutes)

1. Go over agenda (3 minutes)
2. Helpful reading strategies (3 minutes)
3. Review reading comprehension (4 minutes)
4. Assign homework – comprehension questions (5 minutes)

Day 2: (15 minutes)

1. Go over comprehension questions in three small groups (5 minutes)
• (one person per group – Mrs. Shigemitsu, Emma, Tamara)
2. Take a speed reading test (5 minutes)
• Explain significance of speed reading tests (what they’re used for)
3. Ask questions after speed reading test to see if students could comprehend what they read, or if they were reading too fast for their brains to process the words (5 minutes)