{"id":911,"date":"2015-10-12T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T15:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/?page_id=911"},"modified":"2015-10-13T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:25:32","slug":"getting-students-to-read","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/home-teaching-resources\/getting-students-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Students to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Getting Students to Read Textbooks<\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Christine Harrington and Christine Wathen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Problem: Students are not reading the textbook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>Over 78%<\/strong> of freshman and sophomore students reported <strong>not<\/strong> reading the textbook <em>at all<\/em>, or reading it <em>only sparingly<\/em>, for at least one introductory course (Sikorski et al., 2002)<br \/>\n\u2022 Students know reading is linked to academic performance (Elias, 2005; Stratten, 2011)<br \/>\n\u2022 Students are more likely to read before an exam (70%) than before class (27%) (Clump, Bauer &amp; Bradley, 2004)<\/p>\n<p>Why don\u2019t students read?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 Lack of time<br \/>\n\u2022 Lack of interest in content<br \/>\n\u2022 Reading comprehension difficulties<br \/>\n\u2022 Faculty don\u2019t hold them accountable for the reading (no quizzes, reading assignments, or \u201ccover\u201d everything in class)<\/p>\n<p>How can faculty hold students accountable for the readings?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <em>Quizzing<\/em> is linked to academic success (Landrum, 2007; DiHoff, Brosvic &amp; Epstein, 2003; Epsein, Epstein, and Brosvic, 2011)<br \/>\n\u2022 Reading assignments with feedback work (Ryan, 2006)<br \/>\n\u2022 Online discussions of the chapter content leads to increased student understanding of the material(Lineweaver, 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Strategies to increase reading comprehension<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 Teach strategies that will build basic background knowledge- scan the table of contents and read the chapter summary first<br \/>\n\u2022 Consider a 5-10 minute preview lecture to build background knowledge, explain complex vocabulary or concepts<br \/>\n\u2022 Give reading assignments and quizzes with multiple attempts<br \/>\n\u2022 Teach active reading approaches such as 3R \u2013 read (a small section), recite (close the book and summarize in writing what you learned), review (go back and fill in any gaps; highlight during this step)<br \/>\n\u2022 Consider using online tools such as screen-cast-o-matic to provide assistance with challenging readings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting Students to Read Textbooks Christine Harrington and Christine Wathen &nbsp; Problem: Students are not reading the textbook. \u2022 Over 78% of freshman and sophomore students reported not reading the textbook at all, or reading it only sparingly, for at least one introductory course (Sikorski et al., 2002) \u2022 Students know reading is linked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/celt-template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions\/921"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/celt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}