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Advanced Reading Power is an academic reading textbook that takes a different approach than most. It focuses on developing students' awareness of their own reading processes rather than just the content. The book is organized into four sections that correspond to important aspects of proficient reading. It was designed for students in pre-college and college bridge programs to build the skills needed for academic success, including vocabulary. The goal is for students to understand what reading entails in English and gain confidence in handling college-level texts. Teachers should assign work from all sections concurrently and provide an environment where students can take risks, practice strategies, and see examples of good reading habits.

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Advanced Reading Power

Advanced Reading Power is an academic reading textbook that takes a different approach than most. It focuses on developing students' awareness of their own reading processes rather than just the content. The book is organized into four sections that correspond to important aspects of proficient reading. It was designed for students in pre-college and college bridge programs to build the skills needed for academic success, including vocabulary. The goal is for students to understand what reading entails in English and gain confidence in handling college-level texts. Teachers should assign work from all sections concurrently and provide an environment where students can take risks, practice strategies, and see examples of good reading habits.

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Advanced Reading Power

Advanced Reading Power is unlike most other reading textbooks. First, the focus
is different. This book directs students' attention to their own reading
processes, while most other books focus primarily on the content. Second,
Advanced Reading Power is organized in a different way. It contains four
separate sections that correspond to four important aspects of proficient
reading, and therefore it is like four books in one. Teachers should assign work on
all four parts of the book concurrently
Advanced Reading Power was designed to meet the needs of students who are
enrolled in pre-college programs, college bridge programs, or advanced
reading classes at the postsecondary level. Consequently, emphasis has
been placed on the development of skills necessary for academic success,
including building academic vocabulary.
The purpose of Advanced Reading Power is to develop students' awareness of
their own reading and thinking processes so that they can be successful in
reading college-level texts. To accomplish this, the book addresses the
various reading skills in a direct manner, calling students' attention to how
they think as they read.
Many students have a conceptualization of reading as translating, and that
can interfere with their ability to read well in English. In Advanced Reading
Power, students acquire an accurate understanding of what it means to read
in English and gain confidence in their ability to deal with college-level
reading assignments.
In order to allow students to focus on the process of reading, the lexical and
syntactic content of some exercises has been controlled. In other exercises,
however, students practice working with authentic texts of different types,
including excerpts from college textbooks.
Student awareness of reading and thinking processes is further encouraged
in many parts of the book by exercises that require them to work in pairs or
small groups. In discussions with others, students formulate and articulate
their ideas more precisely and thus acquire new ways of talking and
thinking about a text. When students are asked to write sentences or
paragraphs, they are also asked to exchange their work with others and
discuss it so they can experience the connections between reading and
writing.
The success of a reading class depends to a large extent on the teacher. You
can enhance your students' learning while working with Advanced Reading
Power by providing the following:
• an anxiety-free environment in which students feel comfortable taking
risks and trying
new ways of reading.
. enough practice so the students can master new strategies.
• friendly pressure in the form of persuasion and timing.
• positive examples of how to approach a text.
• a model for the kind of thinking that good reading requires.
• an inspiring example of an enthusiastic reader

You will demonstrate mastery of the skills listed above by:


a) Answering written and oral comprehension questions.
b) Applying active-reading strategies to a variety of texts.
c) Annotating and taking notes on a variety of texts.
d) Improving your post-test reading comprehension score on a nationally standardized reading
test.
e) Cooperative and collaborative participation in small and large group activities

f) Achieving an 80% average on weekly vocabulary exercises.


g) Increasing your speed while maintaining 80% accuracy in the Timed Reading books.
h) A written self-evaluation.
i) Completion of a group research and presentation assignment.
Campus-wide Learning Outcomes
Written Communications
Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of
thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form. This outcome includes abilities designed to help
you:
1. Demonstrate use of a writing process in your written responses to assigned reading.
2. Demonstrate involvement with reading material by expressing a clear sense of purpose,
focus, thesis, and design in your writing.
3. Demonstrate the ability to develop an idea through the use of concrete examples and
specific details.
4. Demonstrate clear organization of thought in coherent written form.
You will demonstrate this outcome by your: 1) written responses to assigned readings, and 2)
short writing assignments.
Responsibility
Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for you to be an effective
member of a community. This outcome is designed to help you recognize the value of a
commitment to those responsibilities which will enable you to work successfully individually and
with others. This outcome includes abilities designed to help you:
1. Identify and comply with clearly stated expectations, policies, and procedures.
2. Recognize and accept consequences resulting from a failure to comply with stated
expectations, policies, and procedures.
3. Meet obligations necessary to complete individual and group tasks.
4. Demonstrate common courtesies and show respect for the needs difficulties, and right of
other.
5. Strive for excellence in contributions, performances, and products. Complete work
independently and appropriately acknowledge the source of ideas and contributions of
other.
You will demonstrate this outcome by your: 1) regular attendance, 2) active and meaningful
participation in class and small group discussions, 3) active contribution and cooperation with a
team on a final project, and 4) completion and handing in of assignments in a timely fashion.
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an
ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to
rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely
evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their
thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time. This outcome
includes abilities designed to help you
1. Use appropriate reasoning to evaluate problems, make decisions, and formulae solutions.
2. Give reasons for conclusions, assumptions, beliefs, and hypotheses.
3. Seek out new information to evaluate and re-evaluate conclusions, assumptions, beliefs,
and hypotheses.
4. Exhibit traits evidencing the disposition to reflect, assess, and improve thinking or
products of thinking.

You will demonstrate this outcome by your:: 1) active and meaningful participation in small
group and classroom discussions, presentations and assignments, 2) written assignments, 3)
completion of a final project, and 4) self and class evaluation

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