Rabih Alameddine was born in Jordan to Lebanese parents and has lived in Kuwait, Lebanon, England, and the United States. He began his career as an engineer, then moved to writing and painting. He is the author of two novels as well as a collection of short stories, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in San Francisco and Beirut. He reads from his new novel 'The Hakawati,' set in the Middle East. (52 minutes)

Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in the Berkeley campus community with an annual student reading featuring short excerpts of work by winners of the year's biggest prose prizes, Story Hour in the Library interns, and faculty nominees. (45 minutes)

Sylvia Brownrigg's newest novel, Morality Tale, is an analysis of a modern marriage. She has written four other works of fiction, including the New York Times Notable Book 'The Metaphysical Touch' and the Lambda Award-winning 'Pages for You.' She divides her time between Berkeley and England. (49 minutes)

Vikram Chandra has won many awards and critical acclaim for his novels and short stories. The best selling Sacred Games was published in 2007. Born in New Dehli, he now teaches creative writing at Berkeley. He reads from his most recent novel to an audience at UC Berkeley. (57 minutes)

Li is author of 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' and 'The Vagrants.' A Beijing native and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received numerous awards. She reads and speaks at UC Berkeley. (54 minutes)

Named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists, ZZ Packer has received a Commonwealth Club Fiction Award, Wallace Stegner and Guggenheim Fellowships, and a Whiting Award. Her acclaimed 2003 collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere features eight stories whose subjects range from Girl Scouts to expatriates in Japan. Originally from Chicago, Packer is currently writing a novel set in the post-Civil War period. (55 minutes)

This resource was created by Ginny Callahan, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

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These lesson plans and activities were purposed and designed by Paula Turon Loren for Kindergarden English teachers in the United Kingdom. The activity is designed and differentiated for different ability groups, thus teachers can adapt the lesson to their students levels and needs. Moreover, the materials may be used and adapted for any country's specific context. 

Strategies for Academic Success accompanies the online first-year University of Saskatchewan Arts and Science course by the same name. The textbook has a reader-friendly format arranged to help you develop the essential skills and provide the information you need to succeed in university.

This study guide is designed to help law students analyze legal texts in English. The guide focuses on understanding key topics, definitions, examples, and tips for better comprehension. The examples and corrections are based on questions and answers to ensure clarity and accuracy. This guide is designed for undergraduate law students enrolled in the course Reading Comprehension Techniques for Law.

The purpose of this lesson is to help students develop their paraphrasing and summarizing skills. Focusing on the I do, We do, You do method, the lesson is collaborative between teachers and students. Objectives:paraphrase information in a nonfiction textconnect like ideas and combine sentencescreate a summary of a piece of nonfiction edit writing for mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling errorspublish a summary Approx. Time: one week

Summer Learning Loss is the loss of students' academic skills and knowledge when school isn't in session, generally occurring over the summer break. This lesson seeks to educate students on the effects of summer learning loss and asks questions that require students to reflect on their past reading behaviors which might have led to summer learning loss, as well as future behaviors that might prevent summer learning loss. In the lesson, students will read articles, analyze a graph, and think critically about a short video all of which detail, in different ways, the dilemma of summer learning loss. Thematically, this lesson works at the beginning or end of the school year, as students transition out of and into the summer.This lesson was curated by Tyler Barna for the 2020 NDE OER Workshop and is designed for a middle-level English Language Arts classroom. It is expected that this lesson will take students 45-90 minutes to complete. All materials are linked digitally within the lesson.  

Welcome to the open source version of Survey of Communication Study. This offers the opportunity to introduce people to Communication as an academic field of study. We have broken the book into two parts. First, we lay the foundation by covering the scope of communication study, its history, as well as a brief introduction to theories and research methods. Second, we provide chapters that survey many of the areas of specialization practiced in the field of Communication today.

This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. This subject is of vital importance – seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet – but is only peripherally served by existing college textbooks. The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study. By covering a wide range of topics with a uniformity of style, and by including glossaries, review questions, case studies, and links to further resources, the text has sufficient range to perform as the core resource for a semester course. Students who cover the material in the book will be conversant in the language and concepts of sustainability, and will be equipped for further study in sustainable planning, policy, economics, climate, ecology, infrastructure, and more. The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study. By covering a wide range of topics with a uniformity of style, and by including glossaries, review questions, case studies, and links to further resources, the text has sufficient range to perform as the core resource for a semester course. Students who cover the material in the book will be conversant in the language and concepts of sustainability, and will be equipped for further study in sustainable planning, policy, economics, climate, ecology, infrastructure, and more.

This resource was created by Sandy Schneider, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This resource was created by Moe Martin, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

These materials were designed as part of the Equity and Open Education Faculty Cohort in the Summer of 2020.
The materials are for IRW 90 -- Foundations of College Reading and Composition

This document contains three parts:

1. My Implementation Goals
2. Open Access Textbooks used in the course
The Word on College Reading and Writing
1,2,3 Write!
3. IRW 90 Course Calendar (Weeks 1-2) incorporating the open access textbooks with links to related activities and assignments.

IRW 90 Foundations of College Reading and Composition

Course Description
Covers reading and writing processes, topic development, and revision for clarity. Focuses on developing flexible strategies for reading and writing, and producing clear and coherent paragraphs and essays. Emphasizes strategies for comprehension and metacognition, critical reading and thinking skills, intellectual curiosity, vocabulary development, and writing conventions.

Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
Read to understand main ideas, supporting details, and a writer’s purpose in a variety of texts.
Use composing and reading strategies for comprehension.
Use reading strategies to write coherent texts that develop ideas in support of a central idea.
Use writing conventions (content, form, format) to communicate the writer’s ideas.
Use strategies to enhance and diversify knowledge of vocabulary.
Follow a process to access information in textbooks and other reference texts.
Use flexible strategies for pre-reading, reading, reviewing, rereading, correcting comprehension, drafting, revising, and editing.

This article describes the processes of making inferences and using context clues to define unknown words. Links to web sites and articles provide background knowledge and instruction for teachers and students.