○Reading Skills in English IA[3432]

＜授業のねらい及び具体的な達成目標＞

The aim of this course is to improve the students’ general reading abilities in English. The focus will be on developing basic comprehension skills: identifying topics, supporting ideas and conclusions. In order to achieve this, the structural formations of short readings will be analyzed. Attention will be given to enhancing the students’ scanning techniques to identify key points and to increasing the students’ reading speeds. Students will be expected to display their skills in the above techniques in English, both orally and in written form.

＜授業計画＞

This class is a combination of 4 aspects of reading: Reading for pleasure, reading skills, thinking skills, and reading faster. Each week students will work on ALL of these skills.

Schedule
1 Pleasure reading: Introduction to reading for pleasure and reading journals.
Reading skills: Unit 1 Predicting, Ex. 1, 3, 6, pp. 25-32
HW Choose a book & read 30 mins./day HW Ex. 2, 4, 5, 7, pp. 29-33

2 Pleasure reading: Students introduce books
Reading skills: Unit 1, Ex. 8; Unit 2 Scan, Ex. 1 & 2, pp. 39-43
Thinking Skills: Ex. 1, p. 153
Reading Faster: c & d, pp. 179-189
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 9, pp. 36-37 HW. Ex. 2, p. 154

3 Pleasure reading: Talk about book conferences, reading rate
Reading skills: Unit 1, Ex. 10, p. 38; Unit 2, Ex. 3-5, pp. 44-48
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 2
Reading Faster: Passages 1 & 2, pp. 191-194
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 3 & 4, pp. pp. 154-156

4 Pleasure reading: Reading Sprints
Reading skills: Unit 2, Ex. 6, 7, 8, pp. 49-52
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 3 & 4
Reading Faster: Passages 3 & 4, pp. 195-198
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 5 & 6, pp. pp. 156-158

5 Reading skills: Unit 5 Topics, Ex. 1, 3, 5, 6, pp. 84-88
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 5 & 6
Reading Faster: Passages 5 & 6, pp. 199-202
HW Reading 30mins/day HW Ex. 2, 4, 7, 8, pp. 85-93 HW Ex. 7 & 8, pp. 158-159

6 Units 1, 2, & 5 Test (Written & Oral)
HW Reading 30mins/day

7 Reading skills: Unit 6, Ex. 1, 4, 6, pp. 94-101
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 7 & 8
Reading Faster: Passages 7 & 8, pp. 203-206
HW Ex. 3, 4, 5, 7, pp. 98-102 HW Ex. 9 & 10, pp. 160-161

8 Pleasure reading: Start book conferences during office hours (by appointment)
Reading skills: Unit 6, Main Ideas, Ex. 8 & 11, pp. 103-107
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 9 & 10
Reading Faster: Passages 9 & 10, pp. 207-210
HW Ex. 9 & 10, pp. 105-106 HW Ex. 11 & 12, pp. 162-163

9 Reading skills: Unit 7 Patterns, Ex. 1 & 2, pp. 109-113
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 11 & 12
Reading Faster: Passages 11 & 12, pp. 211-214
HW Ex. 3 & 4, pp. 114-116 HW Ex. 13 & 14, pp. 164-165

10 Reading skills: Unit 7, Ex. 5, 7, 10, pp. 117-125
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 13 & 14
Reading Faster: Passages 13 & 14, pp. 215-218
HW Ex. 6, 8, 9, 12, pp. 118-126 HW Ex. 15 & 16, pp. 166-167

11 Reading skills: Unit 7, Ex. 11, 13, 15, pp. 125-131
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 15 & 16
Reading Faster: Passages 15 & 16, pp. 219-222
HW Ex. 14, 16, 17, pp. 129-133 HW Ex. 17 & 18, pp. 168-169

12 Reading skills: Unit 7, Ex. 18, 19, 20, pp. 134-136
Thinking skills: Discuss Ex. 17 & 18
Reading Faster: Passages 17 & 18, pp. 223-226

13 Units 6 & 7 Test (Written)

＜成績評価方法及び水準＞

Interviews/Book Conferences (3x10%) 30%
Written Tests (2x10%) 20%
Homework/Progress Charts 20%
Effort/Attitude 20%
Reading Journals 10%

＜教科書＞

Reading Power, Third Edition, by Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries: Longman

＜オフィスアワー＞

Office hours will be on Wednesday by appointment, usually between 11:00-1:00 or 4:20-6:00.

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