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

• 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

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?

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).

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.

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.

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)?

Essay Writing

• SHARE Your BEST PRACTICES!• (8-12 Scores)

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

More Words

• Gyn• Andro• Pac/Plac• Pug• Bellu/Belli• Pro• Gnos• Scien

• De• Greg

*A fun word:Antepenultimate

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_____________.

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 __________________.

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.

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.

PASSWORD! • A Competition!

• Form Groups