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Tips from Your TCC


Art, science, intuition, experience, prior knowledge…these are only the beginning of a defining list of what we bring to the classroom. Your TCC invites all of you to gain from as well as share some of the ideas and/or practices that help make your classes successful. These can be tips that you have created out of your experience or tips you've gleaned from other sources. Tips from Your TCC will be a monthly feature in the Trib, and it will be archived on the TCC website. If you have tips you'd like to share, please email them to Julie Damerell, jdamerell@monroecc.edu

Tips from Your TCC--October 2008

Strategies to Help Students Improve as Readers

1.  Explain and model how our own reading process varies according to material, prior knowledge, and purpose.
2.  Show our own note-taking and responses to a passage.
3.  Write “what it says” (topic sentence) and “what it does” statements (purpose/function) for paragraphs.
4.  Find and share supplemental materials related to class texts from the Internet, newspapers, and magazines.
5.  Play the “believing and doubting” game with a text. What’s fact, what’s opinion?
6.  Create reading guides—key questions to consider before and after reading.
7.  Show how we diagram, draw, or outline ideas and relationships when we read.

--adapted from John Bean, Engaging Ideas, Jossey-Bass. https://www.engl.niu.edu/was/3-2001.html#strategies.

Julie Damerell
Transitional Studies
10/08/2008