RDG 091 AGENDA
 Review textbook structure terms and concepts for
textbook analysis mini-unit we will complete
between the Psychology Unit and the
Communications Unit. It starts March 10, and
you will need to bring a college textbook that day.
 Group Exercise: Psychology Unit Exam
preparation. DUE TODAY.
 Psychology and Reading Process Unit Exam
is Thursday, March 5.
Text Organization and Its Relationship
to Reading Comprehension
 Well-presented physical text facilitates
reading comprehension.
 RESEARCH SHOWS: Student awareness of
text structure is highly related to student
reading comprehension.
 Explicit instruction in the physical presentation
of text and/or text structure facilitates reading
comprehension. That’s what we will be
doing with the textbook project the week
after next.
Textbook Study: Key Vocabulary
 TEXT STRUCTURE:
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External structures – the way the text is physically
presented; today’s focus is on these physical text
features/structures.
Internal structures – the way the actual content is
developed through organizational patterns of
development such as cause/effect, comparison/contrast,
definition, etc.
Take a “big picture” look at your textbooks:
Physical Text Features that Facilitate Learning
 Title and Type of Source
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(book, magazine, online
source) layout
Target audience
Publishing Information
Authors/editors; author bio
and background notes
Preface
Table of Contents
Glossary
Index
 Headings
 Subheadings
 Questions
 Summaries
 Auxiliary content such as
additional text boxes,
maps, online links,
quotations from the text or
elsewhere, images, charts,
diagrams, etc.
 References
 You probably can find
others!
Textbook Study: Key Vocabulary
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Organizational Patterns of Text –
“Patterns of development” that authors or
editors use to structure the textbook’s text.
Understanding these internal structures help
you comprehend texts.
(Even when you write yourself, you use these “patterns of
development” to build an essay or write a narrative!)
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explaining by example, illustration, supporting detail, facts
comparison/contrast (similarities and differences)
cause/effect
classification (types/kinds)
narration (“story”)
extended definition
analysis (break down into parts)
process (how something works)
argument
Preparing for the Psychology Unit Exam
March 5
 The main ideas in five articles we have read. You
should know what the main idea is in the chapters
and article and to recognize and apply information
that supports, explains, and illustrates those main
ideas.
 Reading process terms and strategies including the
following: background or prior knowledge, SQ5R,
Cornell notes, elaborative rehearsal, definitions and
key terms.
Today’s Group Exercise:
Create Test Questions for Unit Exam
 CREATE one multiple
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choice question for
EACH of these readings:
“Even Geniuses Need to
Work”
“Why Science?”
“The Nature/Nurture
Question”
“Emerging Adulthood”
“Intelligence and
Achievement Testing”
 CREATE a list of the top
fifteen new words that are
most important to know
from our five psychology
readings. DEFINE each
term on your list
completely.
 In other words, what
fifteen words would you
tell a friend to study who
was about to embark on
this psychology unit in a
reading class?
Create One “Story” Multiple Choice Question
for “Emerging Adulthood”
 Review the models in the practice quiz from last
week to guide you.
 Make sure the situation (“story”) you present in the
“stem” of the prompt is very clear to all readers in
the group! Read it aloud to make sure it makes
sense.
Exercise Checklist
 Each group turns in:
 One set of five questions; one for each reading
 ONE “story” multiple choice question based on “Emerging
Adulthood”
 One list of fifteen “essential” words for this unit,
including definitions.
 Work must be reviewed and “proofed” by each group member
before turning it in.
 Put names of all group members on the sheets you turn in.
Next Week
 Next Tuesday, 3/3: Unit Review
 Next Thursday, 3/5: Unit Exam
 Bring your psych articles and notebook.
 Begin reviewing course content thus far as it
relates to what the exam will cover and be
prepared to ask any questions you have about it or
the exam on Tuesday.
FOR Tues. 3/10: Bring a textbook from another
course