Search Results for reading skill

... students, cultivate their critical reading and writing skills, harness digital tools and sources, and teach students how to transfer those skills to academic writing and other endeavors. To fight fake news, students must learn to interrogate sources and writing in the news, thereby empowering them to read...

.... The authors advocate for an instructional model that gives students ample opportunity for active learning and for practicing close reading skills. The authors conclude with a brief coda calling for more scholarship and reflection on faculty-graduate student collaboration in both scholarship and teaching. ©...

... to appreciation as a goal of literary study. I argue that teaching appreciation helps to cultivate virtues of open-mindedness, responsiveness, and attunement, and that such teaching may be useful in addressing widespread declines in reading and reading skills. At the end of the essay I describe changes I have...

... skills, and explore the structures of contextual frameworks necessary for close readings while modeling vital research practices. Works Cited Alexievich Svetlana . 2006 . Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster . New York : Picador . BBC . 2017 . “ Puerto Rico...

...Julie Sievers Abstract This article explores how annotation with digital, social tools can address digital reading challenges while also supporting writing skill development for novices in college literature classrooms. The author analyzes student work and survey responses and shows that social...

... hand, by invitations to make intertextual and personal connections to the text. Analyzing features of successful close reading, the essay proposes that intertextual thinking and personal connection are important components. The essay recommends assessing student skills in the initial stages of teaching...

...Shannon R. Wooden; Maura Spiegel; Sayantani DasGupta Narrative medicine, designed to develop empathic listening skills in healthcare professionals, also helps literature teachers discuss ethics without sacrificing critical rigor. Reading the distasteful narrator of Dostoevsky's challenging story...

... describes a pilot project where, instead of taking a developmental education reading and writing course, the students co-enrolled in a zero-credit social sciences skills lab and at least one college-level gateway course. The lab focuses on reading and writing in the disciplines. Using classroom examples...

...Fernando Sánchez Abstract Recently, scholars have suggested that reading narratives helps develop students’ phronesis (the Greek term for wise judgment and decision‐making skills), which is crucial for efforts to understand today's major political, environmental, and transnational contexts...

... to discover just how lacking first-year students can be in terms of basic writing and reading skills. Thus, while the intellectual component of the courses remains high, many instructors are reshaping their syllabi to include more deliberate teaching methods aimed at raising their students...

... is “an introduction to college-­level academic study with emphasis on critical reading and discussion” (King’s College 2013). In practice, as long as students read a variety of texts and learn to hone their skills of comprehen- sion, summary, synthesis, and engagement with texts, Core 100 offerings may focus...

...Nancy L. Chick; Holly Hassel; Aeron Haynie This article documents a scholarship of teaching and learning project designed to help literature students cultivate the core disciplinary skill of reading for complexity. We offer a close reading of student responses from a collaboratively designed lesson...

.... This essay describes how the course is organized and what students are required to do, and it attempts to explain why, in this particular course, students develop complex reading and writing skills and engage in critical work on a difficult literary text beyond what one would think could be possible in one...

... literacy reading skill Works Cited Bauerlein Mark . 2008 . The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future . New York : Penguin . Bean John C. 2011 . Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical...

... why prior knowledge—not formal skills—is indispensable to all reading comprehension. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Bloom, Allan. 1987 . The Closing of the American Mind . New York: Simon & Schuster. Clark, Lorraine. 1992 . “Allan Bloom and Gerald Graff: On Mimesis as Freedom...

... equity among first‐year students, are designed with attention to trauma‐informed approaches and a focus on process‐driven writing. Instructors address noncognitive skills with students, such as time management and note‐taking, and consider the cultural relevance of their reading and writing assignments...

... that Dante revised or reinvented historical events. It is argued that Dante’s use of history can be a valuable tool to teach the skills of critical analysis and close reading. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Works Cited Alighieri Dante . 1980 . Inferno , trans. Mandelbaum Allen...

...Ashlie K. Sponenberg This article examines the applicability of controversial course themes in the first-year writing classroom. It narrates examples of student resistance to readings and discussions that led to intellectual and personal discomfort, and then assesses the benefits (improved critical...

... for transitioning to college-level critical reading and writing from sources. Introducing and citing sources in writing about reading can signal a developing but still very basic transition to evaluating sources. However, this move can be read by instructors as a proxy for more complex skills in the absence...

..., the teaching workshops led the graduate students to want more pedagogical mentoring and instruction from the teaching faculty. Undergraduate classes led me and some other faculty to try to imagine how literature courses might be designed specifically to improve the undergraduates critical reading skills...