ESL ***.** Tuinstra-Rosales

Reading Skills for Today’s Adult

Objective: This program will help you learn vocabulary, read with better comprehension and faster speed.

We will read and answer questions about an article in the lab every Tuesday. You will chart 2 timed scores for each reading. This will improve your vocabulary, reading speed, and fluency.

FIRST: Log in with your Net ID*. Click the icon for Internet Explorer.

**If you do not know your personal Net ID and password, please take your student ID card to the office in IB 3303. The staff there can help you.

Step 1: Click the Internet Explorer icon.

Step 2: Go to the website. The simplest way is to go to bing.com and type in the search box “Reading Skills for Today’s Adults”. Click on the first blue link. It looks like this:

Reading Skills for Today's Adults - Marshall Adult Education

http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/reading_skills_home.htm

Step 3: Find “Read the Stories”. Click on “Group 1-Levels 0.7 to 4.5”.

READ THE STORIES

Read the stories on-line

Reading Skills are divided into 2 groups. Click on the group you want to read.

Group 1 - Levels 0.7 to 4.5

Group 2 - Levels 5.0 to 8.0

NOTE: Do not click on PRINT THE STORIES.

PRINT THE STORIES

Reading Skills are divided into 2 groups. Click on the group you want to print.

Group 1 - Levels 0.7 to 4.5

Group 2 - Levels 5.0 to 8.0

Step 4: Scroll down to LEVEL 4.5. The first story is “A Successful Job Interview”. I have numbered them here to help you with charting and remembering which stories you have already read.

LEVEL 4.5

1.Successful Job Interview

2.After a Job Interview

3.Asthma

4.Being on Time

5.Diabetes

6.Divorce Hurts

7.Eat Healthy, Live Healthy

8.Family Fun at the Park

9.Happy New Year

10.Lawn Mower Safety

11.Make a Good Impression

12.Make your Neighborhood Safe

13.Peace at the State Fair

14.Protect Kids from the Sun

15.Safety Gear

16.Save Money on your Utilities

17.School Age Children and Bed Wetting

18.Smoke Alarms Save Lives

19.Stop for School Buses

20.The Envelope System

21.The Value of Education

22.Wardrobe or Closet

Step 5: Choose one story to read today. Click on the title and follow directions.

Step 6: Find a partner to time you while you do the first timed writing. Chart your pre-reading score in the first column. Make sure to write the date and the number of the story.

Step 7: BEFORE you begin reading, write your answers to the pre-reading questions on paper. Study the vocabulary.

Step 8: THEN, you will read and listen to the story 3 times. (Headphones are stored under the printer.)

Step 9: Write your answers to the exercise at the end of the reading. Write 4-5 sentences about the writing topic. Hand in your exercises to me at the end of lab hour or before class the next day.

Step 10: AFTER you have read, listened and completed the exercises, find a partner to time you while you do the last timed writing. [Click: Go to final timed reading.] Chart your post-reading score in column 2 like you did with the pre-reading score. You will have 2 columns for each reading.

RESULT: Each week you will add your reading speed to two more columns. You can connect the pre-reading dots with one line, and the post-reading dots with a different line. There will be 2 lines going horizontally across the chart. This shows us how your reading fluency and speed increases over the course of this 10 week quarter.

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