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Listen: Critical Reading is a Foundational College Skill

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Critical reading is a central, foundational college skill, essential to all courses. In this interview with Nathan Loewen, Catherine Roach talks about teaching critical reading and how she pushes students to “ruminate” and become better readers and thinkers. Some of the questions asked: In what classes do you emphasize this skill? How do you explain critical reading to your students? How do you teach students to read critically and make connections across texts? What challenges do you encounter while teaching critical reading […]

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Teaching with Guided Readings

by Andrea Barton, Department of English Introduction From my perspective, a guided reading exercise is any reading assignment that is teacher-annotated. In other words, this is a reading assignment that contains either brief or developed comments, questions, brief explanations, or other such teacher-input that students should encounter while they read. This input functions much like a second level of assignment instructions — not just what I want the student to read, but how I want the student to read it. […]

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How I Guide Students to Read for My Class

Student reading a textbook

by Chris Lynn, Department of Anthropology One of the downsides of being a professor is that we were all the types of people who generally liked to read and liked to learn more, which is what led us to be successful in college, go on to graduate school, and become professors. The easiest students to teach are younger versions of ourselves. The rest are not nearly so inclined to read the material. Because there is so much to cover in […]

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