The Reading-Writing Connection: Preparing GED Grads for College Coursework
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The Reading-Writing Connection: Preparing GED Grads for College Coursework Sally S. Gabb Reading Skills Specialist Bristol Community College [email protected]
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The Reading-Writing Connection: Preparing GED Grads for College
CourseworkSally S. Gabb
Reading Skills SpecialistBristol Community [email protected]
Agenda:I - Introduction: The path to college level reading & writingII - Testing & placementIII - Reading: comparative standardsIV – Reading: comparative instructionV - Writing: comparative standardsVI - Writing: comparative instructionVII - Connecting Reading & WritingVII - Motivation & engagement
The Reading-Writing ConnectionNCTN conference Nov. 9, 2012
“Reading and writing are a natural pair. Pre-writing requires reading for ideas; analyzing text requires writing. Research shows that this combination has potential to contribute in powerful ways to thinking.”
Dr. Lana Myers, associate professor of English, Lone Star College, Houston, TX
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What are your strongest memories about the following:◦Reading assignments during your first year in
college◦Writing assignments during your first year in
college
Placement testing: Don’t confuse the road with the destination!
Placement tests may or may not provide an accurate picture of student reading & writing skills
Prepare students for placement tests with practice testsPrimary placement instruments: COMPASS; ACCUPLACER
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College Placement Practice Tests:
http://www.compass-test-practice.com/
http://www.collegeboard.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.swccd.edu/~asc/
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The ACCUPLACER Reading Placement:Adaptive test: increases in difficulty as test taker succeeds: higher levels = higher scores
Test content: vocabulary, text structure (main idea, details, etc.), sentence relationships (patterns of organization transition words), inference
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Reading for Transition to College & Career:
Standards for mastery: ◦ GED passage vs. college readiness:
ABE ELA framesworks: identify GED level mastery www.doe.mass.edu/acls/frameworks/ELA.doc
College reading & writing standards (College Board)
www.google.com
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Reading for Transition to College & Career:
Teachers who are alert to the complex interactions among these elements:engagement reading skill reading tasktext
are better equipped to differentiate their instructional strategies to help all students become effective readers.
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Reading skills for college:Vocabulary: knowledge and strategiesThree stages of the reading process
Connecting to prior knowledge (schema)Basic comprehension skills/ strategies Identify the author’s purpose/intended
audience
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Connecting new information to existing knowledge builds the web of knowing that enables us to retain information in our long term memory.
Reading skills for college:
Mood, tone, figures of speechAnalysis: Fiction/ non fiction; Fact or
opinion? Reading to learn: memory strategiesTextbook strategies
Vocabulary: tools for college reading and writing
http://www.swccd.edu
http://www.quizlet.com
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Basic Comprehension Strategies:Three stages of the reading process –
reading to comprehend and learn from textBefore you start readingWhile you readAfter you read
Before you read:◦Identify topic◦Skim◦Connect with prior knowledge◦Predict & question
While you read:
Self monitor: do I understand
Question: am I finding answers
After you read:Did I answer my questions?What new questions did I findWhat is the author telling me about
the topic?
Textbook reading:
Get to know your textbook!!
http://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/reading.htm
Writing for Transition to College & Career: Writing is a recursive process. Experienced writers do not usually follow a linear
progression of stages as they compose a text Experienced writers are flexible in how they
approach a writing situation Experienced writers draw on a variety of strategies
to carry out and manage the numerous complex tasks involved in composing
There are no set formulas for making these decisions
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Learning to write is hard work!! To manage these processes independently,
novice writers require: effective instruction good feedback clear models
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To develop, novice writers must: learn and practice effective writing
strategies receive regular feedback on their writing develop a repertoire of strategies to call
upon.
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While you read:
text2mindmap pdf - adobe reader
http://www.text2mindmap.com/
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Engaging students in reading:
Self selected readingBook club activitiesPersonal reading log
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Engaging students in reading & writing:
Common reading experience: the BCC OneBook
Integration into content Speakers/ youtube film
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Engaging students in writing:
Dialogue journals Current events summaries Class newspaper Group reports/ research
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READ READREAD
WRITE WRITE WRITE
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"The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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