In this lecture, we're going to be talking about different levels of reading. The first level is easy. At this level, you understand the meaning of all the words and you can move quickly through the material as you're reading. The second level is what I like to call your just right reading level. With this level, you understand most of the words, a few of them are challenging. And most of the material you can read quickly, but you do have to slow down at other times to make sure you're following and understanding what's happening.
The third level is challenging. At that level, you are reading slowly, a lot of the words are unfamiliar to you. And you might even need to take notes to keep track of what's going on with the Plot Setting characters and vocabulary words that you're learning as you read. In the resources there is a handout that goes along with it. This lecture that maps out exactly what each of the three levels are, and it has an activity for you to complete. In the activity, what you'll do is look through different books that you have at home, or at the library if you don't have very many books at your house.
Or you could also go onto Amazon and click on the look inside for kindle books and read the first couple of pages to books that way. But what I'd like for you to do for this first activity is to to find maybe eight books or so and read the first two pages two to three pages of each novel. Or if you're looking for a short story, you could find a book of short stories and do this with those two. And you're just going to decide, is this at my easy level where I can fly through it and I understand everything that's happening. Is it at my just right level, where some of it I can go quickly through but other times I need to slow down or is this challenge And I would need to move slowly through this story. And just make some groups.
If you're on an E reader, you can just write down titles of the books. Or if you're at the library, just sort them into piles, or at home sort of into piles. And try to see if you can find at least two or three, just write books for your reading level. And in our next activity, we're going to actually look at those books more closely and choose the book that you're going to read for this course.