Course Overview

Hello, everyone! Welcome to Reading Strategy Classroom! Before you begin the new class, read the following course overview with your parents or mentor.

How to contact your instructors?

Your instructors are Baiyun and Jeremy. Here is our contact information. If you have a problem in your class, do call us or write emails to us!

What you will learn in this class?

Here you will learn a series of comprehension strategies that you could use while you read stories or newspapers. You may not know what a comprehension strategy is. It is a plan of steps that a good reader use to make sense of a story or other text. After completed the course, you will be able to understand it and also be able to:

1. identify why you want to use a comprehension strategy;

2. identify when you would use this strategy -- before, during or after reading;

3. identify steps how the strategy is used in action;

4. apply the strategy in reading.

How you will be graded in this class?

In this class, you are expected to finish three kinds of assignments. They are discussion posting, quiz, and reading and writing assignments. To make a good final grade, you will need to finish all three tasks within each instruction module.

What kind of hardware and software you need to get?

a. Get these stories! You will sure have fun in reading!

b. You also need a computer, mouse, keyboard and Internet access to complete this class.

c. Do you have these software installed in your computer? If not, please go to the following website to download them.

Adobe Reader -- Download

QuickTime Player -- Download

Flash Viewer -- Download