Unit 1:

What Makes a Text Readable?


     1) First, in between 250 and 500 words, identify what point of view you are going to design your curricular unit from.  For example: will you be considering the reading unit as the designer of a curriculum, or as a teacher of a specific grade within a coordinated curriculum, or as the teacher of a specific grade that feeds into a specific curriculum for subsequent years?

     2) Next: what part of the curriculum are you trying to revise to include reading?  For instance: are you planning how you would use a text over the next four years for the four levels you teach; or are you are implementing curricular goals for teachers at several levels, as a department chair; or are you are teaching at one level, and want to implement reading throughout one or more grading period?  Again, specify this situation in between 250 and 500 words.

     3) Finally: choose a reading text that fits your students and your curricular goal, and explain why the text would be appropriate for your students.  To insure an authentic readin experience, that text should most likely be a text written for a German-language audience originally.  Beyond that, comment (250-500 words) on the text's format, content, style of presentation, relevance to the students' lives or to the curriculum, and other similar issues, as presented in the unit.


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