Class Introduction

Hello class, Welcome to College Reading Strategies.This course is a performance based course providing intensive, direct instruction leading to rapid improvement in reading and study strategies needed for your college and career success. You will learn to use the study strategies from this course and apply them to your other courses. The primary goals of this course is to help college developmental readers to develop effective strategies for comprehension in academic disciplines; specifically this course will focus on vocabulary development, comprehension development, and reading and writing connection. I will be speaking with you more in detail during class and giving you a syllabus to explain the reading assignments. An important note: You will be assigned to log in to my blog address below and participate in shared readings. You will then Post your opinions and comments on my blog for other students to read. You must respond to 4-6 readings of your classmates' blogs- this is mandatory and is part of your grade. I look forward to meeting you and speaking with you in class. I will also be open to your shared suggestions as we work to make the class fun and interesting. Also listed below are blog tutorial websites to help you create your personal blog. blog tutorial 1 blog tutorial 2.