Session 7: Concentration/Rapid Reading/Medical Terms
1) Reviewed Graphic Illustrations diagram of Respiratory System
2) Concentration/ ppt. (10 minutes) What can we do to improve our concentration? Youtube video
on concentration: Count how many times the team in white passes the basketball?
3) Activity with two newspaper handouts: read with time pressure of two minutes for article on
texting and one minute on article on economy. Then, turn paper over and record what they
remember. Compare what students remembered on each article and discuss why they remember
the major details of the texting article and not the economy….what does this mean?
4) Think aloud/” Sounds of an Obstructed Airway” as Model an active reader who is concentrating:
What do you visualize; what can you relate to; what questions do you have
5) Practice with Concentration: One minute drills in science with 10 question
“Respiratory System” and “How the Heart Works”
6) Medical terminology - Negation, Measurement, Bottom MT-5
Day 8: Wednesday, August 7, 2013/ Irene and Cheryl
Memory/mnemonics/medical terms using mnemonics/research
1)Warm up reading practice all skills? Use one minute drill; Simple Complex Carbs; rapid read then
annotate; create map OR Cornell notes (15 minutes) no time
1) Memory ppt (15 minutes)
2) Group activity creating acronyms and acrostic sentences; group share/present (30 minutes)
(Review textbook reading strategies using Pathophysiology chapter. How would they approach
assignment class; Jigsaw and have each group share what they would do to understand, organize and
remember information on their section) – time?
3) Medical Terms: Review Sheet: Create Mnemonics: Time, General Prefixes
4) LRC 230:
Look at websites for Career Research and review assignment; ( 15 minutes); give them an index
cards for each subsection i.e qualities they need. Education, job outlook etc.
(20 minutes)
Create Cornell Notes: Left side key research terms/ right side the details
Day 9 August 8, 2013 Post Assessment: Cheryl
1. CTEP ( I made some copies and have some in office when I get in
there again…..think there are 9 now)
Day 10: Cheryl Presentations on Career Research
Share what they learned in group with cards
Medical terminology