Assignment task:
Reflect on what you learned about yourself and your reading process throughout the course. Think about the course as a whole. Consider what part or parts of the course have been the most enjoyable for you and why. What part or parts have been the most frustrating and why?
Explain how your view of reading has changed since the beginning of this course. You can focus on the importance of reading, your confidence in your reading skills, the purpose of reading, or something else. Whatever you choose to focus on, be sure to describe how you felt about it at the beginning of class and how you feel about reading now.
Describe your plan for reading in future classes.
1. Which strategy will be your "go-to" strategy? This is the strategy you will use most often for reading in your future courses.
2. Explain a situation in which you would choose to use a different strategy, other than the one you just described. What is that situation? What strategy would you use instead? Why does changing your strategy in this situation help you read more effectively?
3. Consider the different environments or contexts in which you will be reading. What strategies do you need to use to be successful in that environment or context? For example, how would your strategy change if you were reading in the car waiting to pick up your child versus reading in the library? How would your reading strategy change if you were reading a popular versus a scholarly source?
4. Include at least three different reading environments or contexts on your Reading Strategies Plan. Examples of different reading environments and contexts are
- type (such as scholarly or popular),
- medium (such as on a screen or on paper),
- length of the text,
- format (such as informational, narrative, or academic),
- familiarity with topic (background knowledge), and
- environment (where you are reading).
Provide an example of how your preferred reading strategies can be applied outside of the classroom (e.g., work, home, etc.). Be specific. What might you be reading, why might you be reading it, and which specific strategy might help in that situation?
This is another good place to include a quote or paraphrase. Remember you need to include one to two quotes and/or paraphrases in this project.