Why Some Students Fail the CATW and CUNY ACT Reading (Part 1)

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Day and Days Before CATW, ACT, SAT, GRE, and Other Standardized Exams (Part 2)

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This is part two of the lesson providing simple pointers to improve your performance for standardized exams such as the CATW, ACT, SAT, and GRE.


 


The print-out for this lesson can be found at: http://SpirFit.org/CUNY/Downloads/PointersDayAndDaysBeforeExam.pdf 





If you haven't yet viewed part 1 of this lesson, you can find it at: http://cunyenglish.blogspot.com/2012/08/day-and-days-before-catw-act-sat-and.html



Other free teachings from Amadeo Constanzo can be found at SpirFit.org/Academy and spirfit.org/Academy/catw

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Day and Days Before CATW, ACT, SAT, and Other Standardized Exams (Part 1)

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This lesson (part 1) provides simple pointers to improve your performance for standardized exams such as the CATW, ACT, SAT, and GRE.

 


The print-out for this lesson at:
http://SpirFit.org/CUNY/Downloads/PointersDayAndDaysBeforeExam.pdf

Part 2 of this lesson at:
http://cunyenglish.blogspot.com/2012/08/day-and-days-before-catw-act-sat-gre.html

Feel free to view other free lessons at SpirFit.org and spirfit.org/Academy/catw

TOEFL, ESL exercises, English, grammar, phrase, common expression, CUNY, Kingsborough, Hunter, Baruch, CCNY, Queensborough, Brooklyn College, BMCC, CATW, Departmental Exam Writing, SAT Writing, ACT Writing. grammatical error correction, rephrasing, revise, revising. rephrase, ACT Reading, GRE, GMAT

Pointers for the Day and Days Before Standardized Test

This lesson has been updated and can be found at http://cunyenglish.blogspot.com/2012/08/day-and-days-before-catw-act-sat-and.html

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Using an Article to Improve Reading and Writing

This is a from a meeting in my department where we went over the article "You Can Go Home Again" by Karen Fingerman and discussed how we can use such an article to help students improve both their reading comprehension and writing abilities.  Although the meeting went over one hour, these video lessons are about 10 minutes each (totaling to approximately 30 minutes.)  I only included what I believe to be significant and I added some of my comments and interpretations (such as my simple way of interpreting the paragraph on statistics) not shared in the meeting.

Before proceeding to view the videos, please read the article at least once at:  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/opinion/the-parent-trap.html

Video one emphasizes how to get students to really get into each paragraph and how each one plays a specific role (which in some way directly or indirectly supports the main idea.)

Videos two and three presents how a paragraph full of statistics can be deciphered.

A print-out of the stats breakdown of paragraph 7 can be found at http://SpirFit.org/CUNY/Downloads/YouCanGoHomeAgain_P7_Stats.pdf






Video three ends with bringing out the key points (in the last three minutes).

A print-out of the stats breakdown of paragraph 7 can be found at http://SpirFit.org/CUNY/Downloads/YouCanGoHomeAgain_P7_Stats.pdf

For other academic lessons, feel free to go to: http://SpirFit.org/Academy

Improve Reading & Writing by Annotating 1

This video is lesson one on a simple way to annotate for improving reading comprehension and essay writing (about a reading.)

The handout for this lesson can be found at:

http://SpirFit.org/CUNY/Downloads/Annotating1_2_3_4_Printout.pdf 


http://SPIRFIT.ORG/CUNY/Downloads/Annotating1_2_3_4_Printout.doc

A sample of how one annotates an article (to improve reading comprehension and to prepare for summary and essay writing) can be found at:

cuny.SpirFit.com/2011/10/improve-reading-by-annotating-smart.html




More lessons of various concentrations can be found at:

SpirFit.org/Academy

New Layout Design

Do not be alarmed.  I've only changed the layout design of this site/blog.  It is still the same blog.  I thought I'd use a simpler background (and make it more consistent with my other (SpirFit) blogs.  Feel free to let me know what you think.