Fullerton College Reading Department

Snacks and school supply swag in the reading department offices! (Room 1412) Fullerton College

Check out the Reading Department's Spring 2019 courses.

"But I keep on making what I can’t do yet in order to learn to be able to do it."

Vincent van Gogh

Learn the competencies necessary for college success in Read 127 F: College Literacy Skills this Spring 2019 semester.

Are you taking any Fullerton College Ethnic Studies Department classes this semester at Fullerton College? If taking Read 96 is on your ed plan or you were assessed to that reading course level, consider taking our new Read 96 for Ethnic Studies course! You won't regret it!

Are you an student looking for a class? Consider this new reading class. 100-level, transferable, 2 units. NO TEXTBOOK FEES! Use your syllabus & assignment prompts from other classes to learn course concepts!

Fake News!

I ran across this meme yesterday. It represents a common fallacy about the state of our college students. As a postsecondary reading professional, let me set the record straight with this quote from a white paper commissioned by the College Reading and Learning Association in 2013. A percentage of America's college students have always needed support with reading. And there has almost always been help provided to them by their schools.

"Over 100 years ago, at the beginning of the 20th century, in assessing college students’ literacy proficiencies Copeland and Rideout (1901) complained that “at one extreme of this class of Freshmen are the illiterate and inarticulate, who cannot distinguish a sentence from a phrase, or spell the simplest words” (p. 2) and that “so few of them have been brought up to read anything at all, or would now start to read of their own accord, that an acquaintance with a few books must be forced upon them” (p. 63). Triggs (1941) wrote four decades later that “research has established beyond a doubt that students entering college vary greatly in reading proficiency” (p. 371) and in the middle of the 20th century Barbe (1952) estimated that “twenty percent of entering college students read less efficiently than did the average eighth-grade pupil” (p. 229). These complaints—some dating back more than a century— provide some context to fears that the need for college developmental reading is a recent, unprecedented need."

from The Terrain of Developmental Reading written by Jodi Patrick Holschuh and Eric J. Paulson.
http://crla.net/images/whitepaper/TheTerrainofCollege91913.pdf

Looking for a class this fall at Fullerton College? Check out Read 127: College Literacy Skills!

I plan to go to this even this upcoming weekend. Thought some of you might be interested:

http://www.yallwest.com/

Welcome Home page of YALLWEST book festival

The author of this piece is a blogging buddy of mine. She writes here about the importance of reading. I agree with her wholeheartedly.

http://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/2015/10/17/guest-post-alissa-mcelreath-we-read/

Guest Post, Alissa McElreath: We Read I teach English for a living. I primarily teach the composition sequence to freshmen students at my university, but I also teach creative writing, and now and again, literature classes. Sometimes, ...

A student gave me this book to read. She said it is so good, she couldn't put it down. Now I am afraid to pick it up lest I ignore all the work I have to do. 😊

We reading teachers are very passionate about the benefits of reading. Here is a great article on the benefits of pleasure reading:

http://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/reading-for-pleasure-builds-empathy-and-improves-wellbeing-research-from-the-reading-agency-finds.html

Reading for pleasure builds empathy and improves wellbeing, research from The Reading Agency... The literature review, conducted by BOP Consulting and funded by the Peter Sowerby Foundation, brings together a strong and growing body of research t...

Getting my brain in shape for the fall semester. Technopoly is a dense read, which requires this reading teacher to use some of those reading strategies she is always going on about. 😊

Mary Bogan

Great read:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier

Can Reading Make You Happier? After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.

Check out this blog post. From my experience, this all holds true!

http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2015/03/18/what-motivates-students-interest-in-reading-and-writing/

What Motivates A Student’s Interest in Reading and Writing Educator Larry Ferlazzo details how to make reading and writing relevant to students lives in order to motivate them.

This is an interesting interview w/a researcher looking at how reading literary fiction effects our ability to read others. If you are interested, begin at 25:00...before that point, it's another interview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGvLcB1ReMc

BrianLehrer.tv: A "Little Manila" Rises in New York City The New York City Opera lowered its curtain but another one rises in "Little Manila," with the Hunter College premiere of a Filipino opera. For Filipino Hist...

Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer "Deep reading" is vigorous exercise from the brain and increases our real-life capacity for empathy

This blog post discusses the advantages/disadvantages of digital and print books as well as the preferences of college students. Interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/why-digital-natives-prefer-reading-in-print-yes-you-read-that-right/2015/02/22/8596ca86-b871-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html?hpid=z8&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

Why digital natives prefer reading in print. Yes, you read that right. Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all find a strong preference for print.

Thought this post might interest some of you:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-morin/13-things-mentally-strong-college-students-dont-do_b_6624756.html?ir=GPS%20for%20the%20Soul&ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

13 Things Mentally Strong College Students Don't Do Whether you're hoping to gain more direction for your future, or you're striving to improve your academic performance, building mental strength will help you reach your goals. To become mentally strong, you must give up the bad habits that prevent yo...