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Chaney, Christa
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Reading Class Course Description:
This course offers instruction designed to increase word knowledge and improve reading comprehension while focusing upon the application of specific reading strategies, critical thinking skills and study skills to assist students in achieving success in all academic areas. A variety of literature and instructional materials that reflect the diversity of our nation and the world, as well as the interest and abilities of the students will be used to enable students to meet high standards and expectations.
*Basically, my goal is for all of my students to have the skills to read any literary and academic reading in their near and far futures.
Outline of Skills Taught in Order and Retaught Recursively:
Claim and Evidence: (How to answer a written literature answer.)
Visualization
Genres
Plot
Antagonist/Protagonist
Characterization
Conflict
Inference
Dialect
Setting Review
Dialogue/Monologue
Structure
Diction
Details and Organization
Irony
Sarcasm
Symbol
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Archetype
Paradox Vs. Oxymoron and Antitheses
Poetry Devices
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
Sound Devices
Meter
Rhythm
Rhyme
Assonance/Consonance
Prefix/Suffix
Pun
Euphemism
Idiom
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Resources
Mythology
Author's Influence
Fact/Opinion
Literature Connections
Cause and Effect
Text Aids
Vocabulary