Great Books

Introduction
✦ Reading Styles and Technique
✦ Critical Approaches to the Study of Literature

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Course Description
In this course, selected masterpieces will be read by
students in their entirety. This course will help
students to develop their comprehension skills
through reading activities. The students will
practice text analysis through summarizing and
explore creativity through presentations on the
significance of the selected literary pieces.

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Course
Requirements
• Class Participation and Assignments
• Quizzes/Seatwork
• Major Examinations
• Task Performance
• eLMS (eLearning Management System)
Performance Tasks
✦ Prelims – Infographic
✦ Midterm – Storytelling
✦ Pre-finals & Finals – Literary Folio

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What is
reading?
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Reading is a multifaceted process
involving word recognition,
comprehension, fluency, and
motivation. Learn how readers integrate
these facets to make meaning from print.
Reading is making meaning from print.

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Why do
we
read?
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1. It saves you time
2. It makes you nicer
3. It is a cure for loneliness
4. It prepares you for failure

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Reading Techniques
These are styles and systems and practices in
decoding symbols for better comprehension in
communication, sharing of information and ideas

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Reading
Techniques
1. Cognitive Process
2. Decoding
3. Deriving
4. Language Acquisition

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SKIMMING
✦ Skimming is a strategic, selective
reading method in which you focus on
the main ideas of a text. ... Instead of
closely reading every word, focus on the
introduction, chapter summaries, first
and last sentences of paragraphs, bold
words, and text features.

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SCANNING
✦ Scanning is reading a text quickly in
order to find specific information, e.g.
figures or names. It can be contrasted
with skimming, which is reading quickly
to get a general idea of meaning.

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Phrase Reading
✦ Also known as “chunking’ group of
words that go together to mean
something

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Non Prose Reading
✦ Diagrams
✦ Numbers
✦ Graphs

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Deep reading
✦ As Richard Nordquist explains, "deep
reading is the active process of
thoughtful and deliberate. reading
carried out to enhance one's
comprehension and enjoyment of a
text. 

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Critical Approaches to Reading
Literature 17
5 minute break
Thanks!

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