Hello everyone!!!!...
For the last triplet post, we have already discussed on the strategies to practice a good reading skills, types of reading and how reading will help you to improve your English language.
Here, we want to expose some tips that you can dos & don'ts to have a good reading skills.
READING DOS
- Dramatic monologue - create a monologue for a character in a scene. What are they thinking/feeling at that moment?
- Mapmaker - draw a map of the book's setting
- Adjective-itis - pick 5 adjectives for the book or character(s), and explain how they apply
- Character analysis - describe a character as psychologist might: what are they like? example?
- P.S - after you read the story, write an epilogue in which you explain-using whatever tense and tone the author does.
- Read aloud - you can work in pair with your friend or group, you start reading and go until you wish to pass. Call you friend to continue the reading.
- Open mind - Draw an empty head and inside of it draw any symbols/words/images that are bouncing around in the mind of the character of a story. Follow up with writing to explain.
- SQ3R - when you are reading for textbook or article, use this strategy:
- (S)urvey the assigned reading by skimming, then formulate (Q)uestion , next (R)ead the assigned section and try to answer the questions that you formulate; now, (R)ecite the information; finally, (R)eview what you read.
- Brainstorming - put a character or other word in the middle of a web. Brainstorm association while you write them down, then make connection between ideas & discuss.
- Write an essay - using one different rhetorical modes, write an essay in which you make meaningful connections between the text and your own experiences/ other texts you've read
READING DON'T S
- Don't pick a difficult reading material - if you are in beginner level of learning English language, just picked the easy and short text to read rather than choosing a longer written text.
- Pay much attention on difficult words/phrases -ignore first the difficulties while you are reading, guessing the meaning based on context. Your reading will be distracted when you are gasping for the meaning on that time.
- Wild eyes-sight - make sure your eyes contact do not move from the the book that you read; to prevent you from losing your focus during your reading.
- Wrong body-posture - it is also important for you to be more comfortable while you are reading. make sure you're sit properly and do not stand while reading.
- Reading infront of TV/computer - you will be easily distracted by the sounds or images from this media.
- Reading in noisy/ chaos environment - Obviously!
- Don't choose reading material which totally out of your mind/ schemata! - while you are reading some written page, it should tapping on your previous knowledge/schemata; if don't your reading will become wasteful as you never gain a knowledge that you are needed.
- Doing other works while you are reading - In this case, hitting two birds with one stone will never works better, because reading needs an ATTENTION!
FOR FUN!!
Message : Funny 2-years little old girl reading for Berrenstain Bears for "A Old Spooky Tree". See how concentrate she was in her reading even she didn't spelled out the written words correctly, but IMAGINATION plays wonderful things when reading takes place.
