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Review 1. Reading and Essay Writing. Reading. Five critical reading skills were found to be very important for improvement: Phonemic awareness Phonics Fluency Vocabulary Comprehension. Tactics. Develop "traditional" old fashioned speed reading habits first

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Review 1

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  1. Review 1 Reading and Essay Writing

  2. Reading • Five critical reading skills were found to be very important for improvement: • Phonemic awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension

  3. Tactics • Develop "traditional" old fashioned speed reading habits first • Once thoroughly ingrained it will allow the student to input and scan information quickly • Reading becomes habitualized at mostly an unconscious level. • In this version of speed reading, rather than the incoming flow of information being the focus of attention, active cognitive processes that organize information dominate. • See references to “Blink” by Malcolm Gladwell

  4. Is the SAT Fair? • What does the SAT score seem to say more about than your college skills ability? • What does the SAT Focus on? • Does Speed reading help?

  5. Topic:Main Idea: • The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the symbols of the United States of • America. It is located in San Francisco, California, and spans the Golden Gate • Strait - a mile-wide strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to the San Francisco • Bay. It is surely one of the most beautiful bridges in the world, and also one of the • tallest (the height of a bridge is the height of the towers).

  6. Topic:Main Idea: • The first successful ascent of Mount Everest was accomplished by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953. The first ascent by a woman was on May 16th, 1975, by Junko Tabei from Japan.

  7. Topic:Main Idea: • Sparrows can be found almost anywhere there are humans. Some species of • sparrows prefer to live in deserts, prairies, swamps, marshes, forests, and other bushy • areas. Some sparrows in northern North America will migrate south in winter, • although most stay in one area year-round. The older adult males of the migrating • sparrows usually spend their winters near their breeding area. Many people • throughout the world enjoy these delightful birds.

  8. The Essay • What is the Abyss Theory? • What should every SAT essay (date) have enough of? • How should you begin and end a good SAT essay (date)?

  9. Essay Writing • SHARE Your BEST PRACTICES! • (8-12 Scores)

  10. Vocabulary • A, An, Im, In • Ante • Post • Ben/Bon • Caco • Illo • Ne/Mal • Som • Sop • Ette • Ate • Son • Path • Mut • Ify • Phon • Ity • Som • Meta • Morph • Ize • Loq, Log, Lix • Cred

  11. More Words • Gyn • Andro • Pac/Plac • Pug • Bellu/Belli • Pro • Gnos • Scien • De • Greg • *A fun word: • Antepenultimate

  12. Vocab Practice! • DE • When property has depreciated, what has happened to it? • IN • If a substance is not edible, it is______________ • LOG • The rules and procedures of verbal reasoning, first codified by Aristotle, constitute the science of_____________.

  13. Vocab Practice! • DE • What do we do when we deprecate a person’s achievement? • IN • If a statement is not coherent it is_________________. • LOG • A lecture on a trip, usually illustrated is called a __________________.

  14. Vocab Practice! • ANTE • When the date of one event comes before that of another, the first event _____________the second. • LOQ, LOC • A person who likes to talk, especially one who talks excessively, is __________________. • POST • If you decide to put off doing something until another time, you ________________ it.

  15. Vocab Practice! • CRED • The proofs—for example, certificates, diplomas, letters that an individual is what he/she purports to be are his/her __________________. • MAL • A disease characterized by chills, fever, and transmitted by certain mosquitoes is called______________. • PATH • Using the prefix ANTI—complete this sentence: If you dislike someone you have an ________________ to him/her.

  16. PASSWORD! • A Competition! • Form Groups

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