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Reading Across the Disciplines
Chapter 1: Summary
 Chapter Goal
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Introduce student to active reading strategies
 Previewing
 Activating background knowledge
 Checking & improving comprehension
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What else do we preview in life? --- Not a new skill
 Movies, TV shows
 Music
 Maps
 Magazine and newspaper articles
 Restaurants
 Recipes
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Why preview?
 Overview of material
 Mental outline
 Decide how to approach readings
 Previewing
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Simple steps
 See p. 5
Doesn’t take long
 2 – 3 minutes
 Time yourself
With and without previewing
 Preview Chapter 1
 1a: Active Reading: The Key to Academic Success
 Highlight
o 1st paragraph
o Table 1.1 (Headline only – come back and read completely)
 1b: Previewing
 Highlight
o 1st sentence – “Previewing” – bold
o “How to Preview Assignments” – Bold – Steps 1 - 9
 1c: Activating Background Knowledge
 Highlight
o 1st sentence
o Bolds on p. 15
 1d: Checking Your Comprehension
 Highlight
o Table 1.2
 1e: Strengthening Your Comprehension
 Highlight
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o Bolds 1 – 10
 Preview Ending a Relationship
 Active Reading
 Highlight
 Underline
 Write in margin
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2
3
4
5
 Questions (page 8) ~ Bold sections
pp 2 ~ 1st sentence
pp 3 ~ 1st sentence
pp 5 ~ 1st sentence (sub-heading)
pp10 ~ 1st sentence (sub-heading)
pp 6 ~ 1st sentence (sub-heading)
 Preview Animal Emotions
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Chapter goal
o Discuss concept of animals having emotions
 Controversial
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Highlights
o pp 1 ~ Nothing
o pp 2 ~ Nothing
o pp 3 ~ Recent studies …
o pp 4 ~ 1st sentence
o pp 5 ~ 1st sentence
o pp 6 ~ 1st sentence
o pp 7 ~ Nothing
o pp 8 ~ 1st sentence
o pp 9 ~ Beastly joy. 1st sentence (pleasure)
o pp 10 ~ 1st sentence (play)
o pp 11 ~ 1st sentence (grief)
o pp 12 ~ Nothing
o pp 13 ~ 2nd sentence
o pp 14 ~ sentence w/amygdale
o pp 15 ~ No movie version. 2nd sentence
o pp 16 ~ Nothing
o pp 17 ~ Nothing
o pp 18 ~ Nothing
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Answer questions
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P. 14
1 Animal emotions – from title
2 Answer from pictures
3 Answer from picture captions or highlighted sentences
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 Activating Background Knowledge
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What do you already know?
 From personal experience, work experience, education, etc
What do you need to learn from the reading?
Why do this?
 We learn by integrating new information with old
 Makes it more interesting
 Checking and Improving Concentration
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Follow steps on page 17
Learning modalities