Effective Reading
COM 1103
Tentative Course Schedule
Spring 2000



Instructor Information:

 Name:  Linda Robinett
Office Location:  3E5 AH
Telephone:  682-1611 Ext 7386

Office Hours:

 MW  8:30-9:00 a.m.
 M  10:50-11:50 a.m., 4:50-5:50 p.m.
 T 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 2:30-3:30 p.m.
F 10:50-11:15 a.m.

Week 1 Introduction to Course
Module 1: Preassessment and Chapter 1
Week 2 Chapter 1 Quiz
Module 3: Chapter 14- Techniques for Reading Faster/Rate Drills
Week 3  Module 2 - Active Reading and Learning. Chapter 2
Week 4 Module 5-Vocabulary (Chapter 3, pg. 78 and Chapter 10, pgs. 355-358
Quiz on Prefixes, Connotation and Denotation, Analogies
Week 5 Explanation of Lab Work
Module 3
Begin Lab Work
Week 6 Chapter 3-Roots, pg. 79
Quiz on Roots and Context Clues
Week 7 Continue Lab Work in the Communications Lab
 
Week 8		 Module 6: Organization of Textbook Material
Chapters 4 and 5
Week 9 Quiz on Organizational Patterns
Module 4 Study Reading (Chapter 7, 8, and 9)
Week 10 Module 7 Reading an Autobiography
Richard Wright Video
Week 11 Continue Lab Work
Week 12  Quiz and discussion on Black Boy
Week 13 Module 8 Interpretation and Evaluation (Chapters 10, 11, 12)
Week 14 Continue Chapters 10, 11, 12
Week 15 Continue Lab Work and post-test on Compass
Week 16 Final Nelson-Denny Reading Test
Quiz on 35 Vocabulary Words


Testing and Grading

Grades from the five tests given in this course will be averaged. THERE WILL BE NO RETESTING.* Therefore, the retesting mentioned in the syllabus will not apply.

The five tests will be Chapter 1 Test, Prefix and Analogy Test, Root Test,Paragraph Organizational Patterns Test, and Black Boy Test. The grading scale will be as follows:

A 90-100
B 80-89
C 70-79
D 60-69
F Below 60

In additions to the five tests, students will have to meet the following criteria on the Nelson-Denny test to receive their final grade for the course.

A- 12.8 grade level or a growth of 2 grade levels higher than 12.8
B- 11.4 grade level or a growth of 2 grade levels higher that 11.4
C- 10.0 grade level or a growth of 2 grade levels higher than 10.0
D- Below 10.0

Other objectives listed in the syllabus must be completed to pass the course, but these assignments will be graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. Students must revise unsatisfactory work until it is satisfactory. Homework must be turned in to the instructor within one week after the day it is assigned. A student may be dropped from the roll if he falls too far behind.


Attendance Policy
Since students will be working to build reading skill, and since skill is developed only by frequent correct practice, ATTENDANCE IS CRITICAL. A student may be dropped from the roll (Administrative Withdrawal) if the student has missed so many classes that, in the judgment of the instructor, the student cannot achieve the objectives of the course, or if the student has missed every class during any consecutive fourteen (14) calendar day period.

* Before a test is given in class, students can arrange to take the test at a different time if they will not be able to attend class the day the test is given. If a student simply fails to take a test, he or she will receive a zero.

Option: Students will be allowed to drop one test grade if they have no more than three absences during the semester.

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