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By Shirley E. Ostler sostler@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio
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I am trying an approach which other reading teachers might like to add to their bag of strategies. I teach my students (all are matriculated, with copious reading assignments in their content courses) to assess how long it takes them to read their own text books: read two straight text pages and average the time spent per page. Then they project how long it will take to read the entire article or chapter. Next, they mark in pencil at the top of the pages just what time they expect to get to each page or two. The goal is to read and see if they can beat the clock without losing meaning. After they have done this a while, they can start pushing themselves a little, and they do indeed reduce their own reading time in material that really counts to them. My students like this because their development of speed texts are also the ones in which they have assignments. |
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