Subject : Reading III

Lecturer : Andi Muhammad Yauri, S.S., M.Hum.

Class : TBI Sem V
Group : 1 to 6
e-mail : andi_yaurie@ymail.com

Course description
Reading III is intended to meet the need of students who are at advanced reading classes. It is
emphasis on development of reading skills for academic purposes. This course directs student’s
attention to their own reading process. It covers extensive reading, reading fiction and nonfiction
text, and comprehension reading skills.

Course goals
To revise and extend the students’ awareness of their own reading in order to develop their
ability to formulate and articulate their ideas more precisely and acquire new ways of talking and
thinking about a text in the context of academic reading.

Course requirements
I provide this course to the students by using technology to communicate both students and
lecturer. It is due to space obstacle. This means that the class will require email account for all
students to send or receive course materials and the lecturer wait for student’s feedback. To do
so, the students have to consider:
1. Email.
Make sure you have email account, e.g yahoo, ymail,or gmail. This is a vital requirement
since it can be used to receive course material from the lecturer and send your feedback
to the lecturer.
2. Presence.
You should sign the attendance list from Ketua Kelas as your presence evidence to
STAIN Watampone. However, you requirement for your presence evidence to the
lecturer is by sending your feedback email to the lecturer every week. I will send you
feedback form within every meeting or week. For example, week one, Introduction to
Extensive Reading, you are going to read some texts, do group activity, and answer
questions. After doing the instructions then I will send you a fill form via your email as a
feedback. Then, you need to put ticks and send back to me. Your feedback is your
presence in my attendance list.
3. Class participation.
Work in pairs and group of three or four if you are required in instructions. Become an
active participant in your own learning!
4. Midterm
5. Final examination
6. If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact me at my email address or YM
(andi_yaurie). I also provide discussion room in yahoogroups.

Grading and evaluation

Final examination will follow Ujian Semester schedule and will be held at STAIN Watampone.
Grading scale
• Presence : 25 %
• Assignment : 15 %
• Midterm : 25 %
• Final examination : 35 %

90 – 100 = A
70 – 89 = B
60 – 69 = C
50 – 59 = D
0 – 50 = E

Tentative weekly schedule

Week Material Activity Note

1 Introduction/ course overview • Read course description on this leaflet Advance

• Pairwork. Answer questionnaire 1 &2 Reading
and compare your answer with your Power
partner on page Introduction VII (ARP).
• Send your feedback

• Read the text on page 3

2 What is extensive reading?
Reading and Discussing
Nonfiction (Unit 2)
• Read and do the instruction Before
you read the article, preview it on
page 12
• Read and underline any unfamiliar
words Why the Internet Isn’t the
Death of the Post Office on page 12
& 13.
• Pairwork. Discuss the article with
your partner by answering number
1,2, and 3 on page 13
• Group work. Read the article again
and discuss the question 1 to 5 with a
group of three or four, p.13.
• Send your feedback

• Think about Before you read

question, p.14
3 Reading and Discussing Fiction
 (Unit 3)

• Read the text All Summer in a Day, as

you read, underline any unfamiliar
words
• Pairwork. Compare your unfamiliar
words with your partner and open
your dictionary to find the meaning
(exercise 1 A, p.18)
• Pairwork. Discuss the question 1 to 4
(exercise 1 B, p.18)
• Group work. Retell the story
(exercise 1 C, p.18)
• Group work. analyze the story, who,
when, and where (exposition). Fill in
the table (exercise 2, p.18)
• Send your feedback

4 Responding to and Reporting on • Read the input session Book

Your Extensive Reading Books Conferences, Reading Circles,
(Unit 4) Instruction for Reading Circles, and
Book Presentations. (p, 22 and 23)
• Send your feedback

• Individual Assignment. Find an

English book, you can find it in the
library or browse it in the internet
which has pdf form. When you
finishing reading a book, complete
Book Response Form (you may
rewrite it in your email) and send it to
your lecturer. (the form is on page 24)

• Read the text Introduction to

5 Introduction to Comprehension. Comprehension on page 74
• Read Previewing an article or an
essay and answer the following
questions, p. 75.
• In one minute, read the text How
Dictionaries Are Made as quick as
you can only the underline parts, p,
75 and 76.
• Answer the questions 1 to 6 and
compare your answers with your
 friends on page 76.
• Read the text Previewing a Textbook,
p.77
• Read the table of contents Society:
The Basics on page 77
• Answer the questions and compare
your answer with your friends, p.77.
• Read again the text How Dictionaries
Are Made on page 82 and 83.
• Pairwork. Answer the questions 1 to
5 by T (true) F (false) marking and
compare your answer with other
students.
• Send your feedback

6 Making Inferences • Read Separating Fact from Inference.

P.88
• Read the text Olive Oil Works as a
Natural Painkille, p.89
• Answer the questions 3 to 6 and
compare your answer with your
friends, p.89
• Read other passage A New Pesticide
in India on page 90.
• Group work. answer the questions 1
to 7, p.90.
• Send your feedback

• Read Identifying the Topic of a

7 Understanding Paragraphs
Paragraphs, p. 105
• Study the example, p.105 and do the
exercise 1 p.106.107
• Read Topic Sentences, p.107
• Read the text The Pollution of the
Oceans and find out the missing
sentences at the end of the exercise,
p.107 – 109
• Read Main Ideas of Paragraphs,
p.109
• Read Inferring the Main Idea, p.110
• Group work. decide the main idea
statement in the passage Controlling
Water in the Netherlands, p.111
• Read Connecting Ideas in
Paragraphs, p. 114-115
 • Group work. exercise 6, read the
paragraphs and write the main idea.
Decide pronouns and referent from
the text, p.116
• Send your feedback

8 Midterm
• Read the input session Listing,
sequence, Comparison/Contrast,
9 Patterns of Organization Cause/Effect, Problem/Solution, and
Extend Definition, p. 134 to 141
• Group work. read the paragraphs of
Moon Landing and decide the topic,
main idea, key word in the main idea,
pattern, and supporting fact and idea,
p.142 to 144
• Send your feedback

• Read the input session The Topic and

The Thesis Statement, and also
10 Reading Longer Passage Identifying the Thesis Statement,
Effectively p.155 to 157
• Read the input session The Thesis
Statement, Pattern of Organization,
and Supporting Points, p. 160
• Group work. read the passage Human
Responses to Disaster on page 158
and Cultural Universals in Emotional
Expression on page 159. You have to
decide thesis statement, pattern of
organization and supporting points.
• Send your feedback

• Read the input session Skimming

Questions and Skimming Movie
Reviews, p. 170
11 Skimming • Pairwork. Read the passage Super
Size Me and answer the following
questions, p. 172 and 173
• Read the input session Skimming for
Research, p. 174
• Read the research question and
answer skimming questions, p.174
 • Pairwork. Read the passage ABC
News: U.S. Babies Die at a Higher
Rate and answer the skimming
questions, p. 175 & 176
• Send your feedback

• Read the input session Strategy 1:

Text Marking, p.183 & 184
12 Study Reading • Pairwork. Read the passage and
answer the information in exercise 1
The History of Pizza, mark the text in
order to find the answer
• Read the input session Strategy 2:
Writing Questions for More Effective
Reading, p.186
• Pairwork. Read the passage The
Preindustrial City and mark the key
facts and idea of the text, p.187
• Read the input session Strategy 3:
Connecting Graphics and Ideas,
p.191
• Pairwork. Read the passage and study
the graph showing the different ethnic
in the US and answer the following
questions, p. 191 &192.
• Send your feedback

• Read the input session Summarizing

a Passage, Step1 Summarizing a
13 Summarizing Paragraph, p. 200 - 201
• Pairwork. Read the passage Wetlands
and mark it to show the main idea and
the supporting facts and ideas, the fill
the information
• Read the input session Step 2
Summarizing a Whole Passage, p.203
• Pairwork. Read the passage
Persistent Pets carefully, mark the
text to show the thesis supporting
facts and ideas, the fill the provided
information
• Send your feedback
14 Final examination

Resource :
• Advanced Reading Power: Extensive Reading, Vocabulary Building, Comprehension
Skills, Reading Faster. Beatrice S. Mikulecky and Linda Jeffries. 2007. Pearson
Education: White Plains, NY.
• Test Your Reading. Michael Dean.2002. Pearson Educatio Limited: England.

Example of feedback

Week 1
Material : Introduction
Name :
Student reg. number :
Group :
Date :

Write Yes or No for the following questions

1. Have you read course description?
2. Have you answer all questions in questionare 1 and 2?
3. Have you compare your answer with your partner?

Fill the name of your friend/s who work/s together with you both in pairwork and group work. If
you do not have the information, you do not have to fill it.
4. Pairwork. Name of your friend …….
5. Groupwork. Name of your friens …….

Note: Please send it within week 1 (7 days in a week). If you send in the next week (week 2) or
above, you will begin to lose your presence in week 1.