Monarch High School
5151 Wiles Rd.
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
754-322-1400
[email protected]
Certified Reading K - 12, English K - 12, ESOL, and Gifted instruction.
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Pace Univ. 1983
Master of Science in Reading, Long Island Univ. 1993
Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology, Keiser Univ. (expected graduation) 2015
Career:
Reading, English, and Art instructor 6 - 12 grades - 1988 - 1995, New York city, NY
Adjunct Professor Reading, Broward College - 1995 - 2000, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Reading instructor, Broward county Middle Schools - 1995 - 2006
Reading instructor, Broward county High Schools - 2006 - present
"What have you done for your future self today?"
5151 Wiles Rd.
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
754-322-1400
[email protected]
Certified Reading K - 12, English K - 12, ESOL, and Gifted instruction.
Bachelor of Arts, Journalism, Pace Univ. 1983
Master of Science in Reading, Long Island Univ. 1993
Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology, Keiser Univ. (expected graduation) 2015
Career:
Reading, English, and Art instructor 6 - 12 grades - 1988 - 1995, New York city, NY
Adjunct Professor Reading, Broward College - 1995 - 2000, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Reading instructor, Broward county Middle Schools - 1995 - 2006
Reading instructor, Broward county High Schools - 2006 - present
"What have you done for your future self today?"
COURSE CONTENT:
This course is targeted for grade 11th and 12th grade students, whose test scores are at or below the established proficiency scores in reading. This is an indication that they are not yet “college ready”. Students will be focused on skills used to identify and make inferences from passages covering Prose, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. In addition, students will take practice tests to learn strategies that help them with timed, standardized exams.
The course enables students to:
This course is targeted for grade 11th and 12th grade students, whose test scores are at or below the established proficiency scores in reading. This is an indication that they are not yet “college ready”. Students will be focused on skills used to identify and make inferences from passages covering Prose, Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences. In addition, students will take practice tests to learn strategies that help them with timed, standardized exams.
The course enables students to:
- Determine Central Ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development.
- Summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings.
- Analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
- Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visual and quantitative forms, as well as in words.
- Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the source, relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
- Write in response to reading, emulating authors’ structures, word choices, styles, etc.