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, ...