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Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills
Developing Critical Reading Skills, 6/e
Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco
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  1. On page 53, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., discusses the problem of reduced literacy among American schoolchildren. In this paragraph, he specifically criticizes American schools, rather than the medium of television itself, for creating this situation. He suggests that if schools gave children more homework, kids wouldn't have so much free time to sit in front of the tube. Just what is the relationship between more homework and higher reading scores? Investigate this matter by performing a search using your favorite search engine. (I used www.google.com and typed in "reading scores" + homework.) Or investigate this matter using one or more of these sites:

    2. http://ncesed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/results
    www/smarterkids.com/rescenter/library/articles.asp?article=1291&redir=true
    nces.ed.gov/commissioner/remarks2000/8_24_2000.asp
    family.go.com/raisingkids/child/skills/feature/bapp97homework/bapp97homework3.html

  2. How easy is it to locate the number of calories and grams of fat in your favorite fast-food cheeseburger? (See the excerpt from Eric Schlosser's study of the fast-food industry on pages 55 - 56.) Assume that you are buying a Big Mac, a Whopper with cheese, or a regular cheeseburger with a medium order of French fries. Here are three web sites to begin your search, but feel free to check out the home pages of any other of your favorite fast-food outlets.

    3. www.mcdonalds.com
    www.burgerking.com
    www.in-n-out.com/

  3. Bill Buford, in the Practice Essay "Among the Thugs" at the end of Chapter 1, describes the crowd mentality and behavior of British football fans. Elsewhere in the book from which the essay is taken, Buford refers to these fans as "hooligans." What exactly does this word mean, and what is its etymology? Consult the list of online dictionaries on page 14, look up the word "hooligan" on each of the sites, and note which one provides the most complete information.








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