Schoolido | Lär på ditt sätt I spent the year 2005–2006 in a rather small town in the south of Sweden, where I was placed in the third year at the local “Gymnasiet”. I must say I had one of the toughest but best years of my life. I made some great friends and grew up a lot during my year. One of the most interesting things about my year was realising the contrast between a typical Swedish school and a typical Scottish one and the differences between how teenagers live. For one thing, in Scotland you start school when you’re younger, at the age of five, but the school leaving age is about the same as in Sweden, I think. Teenagers generally don’t differ that much throughout the Western world and the Scottish teenager is no different. One difference is that in Scotland most teenagers are financially quite independent by the age of sixteen—nearly all my friends had part-time jobs. It is quite clear to me that the world is changing rather rapidlyand I am living in a time where opportunities are abundant.
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Pearson Prentice Hall: eTeach: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension by Patricia Babbitt Introduction Most Effective Strategies Practical Applications of Reading Strategies Summary Resources Remember the adventures that lived and breathed between the pages of a really good book when, as a young reader, you slipped away undiscovered into your own magical world? My favorite works were Charlotte's Web, Arabian Nights, Huckleberry Finn, Arthurian Legends, and, later, the timeless tragedy of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is no surprise that many of us who loved such adventures grew up to become today's English teachers and writers. The surprise comes when we discover how many of our own students are struggling readers. But surprise need not lead to a permanent state of frustration. Theoretically speaking, if the daily reading curriculum uses research-proven methods, students should develop skills for comprehending the text. Comprehension monitoring Post-reading: Summarizing (see below) is an effective strategy that can take many different forms. Explain why….
GRE Information What specifically does the GRE test? On the verbal side, the GRE tests vocabulary, primarily in context, and a whole lot of reading comprehension. The three distinct question types on the verbal portion are Text Completion, Sentence Equivalence and Reading Comprehension. On the math side, the GRE tests basic math concepts up through algebra I and geometry. There are also two essays. Of course, ETS likes to claim that the GRE tests skills that you will need to be successful in graduate school, but really all it tests is your ability to take the GRE. How is the GRE scored? Test-takers will get three separate scores, one for the Quantitative (the math), one for the Verbal, and one for the Analytic (the essays). The Revised General Test is adaptive by section. Some test takers will also see an additional experimental math or verbal section, which will not be included in the final score. Essays are evaluated by one human and one computer. Your GRE score remains valid for five years.
Study Skills Guide: Improve Reading Comprehension Skills Good reading comprehension comes only with practice. The basic aspects of reading, such as word recognition, phonetics and fluence, can be mastered in just a few years. However, throughout this process reading comprehension must be emphasized. Sadly, classrooms across the United States have students who struggle with reading comprehension. Students frequently enter college without understanding how necessary good reading comprehension skills are for academic success. Pre-reading survey Before reading a text, complete a pre-reading survey for a brief summary of it. The following is a bullet list of specifics things you should look over and/or read when performing a pre-reading survey of a textbook chapter. Chapter title and subtitles. – Reading the chapter title and subtitles will provide you overall topic of the chapter, and will provide your reading direction and focus. Define your purpose Read the text Take notes or highlight important concepts Post-reading review
EAP Reading - Introduction Skimming to get an overall impression. Skimming is useful when you want to survey a text to get a general idea of what it is about. In skimming you ignore the details and look for the main ideas. Main ideas are usually found in the first sentences of each paragraph and in the first and last paragraphs. As reading is an interactive process, you have to work at constructing the meaning of the text from the marks on the paper. Skimming a text using first lines of paragraphs. In most academic writing, the paragraph is a coherent unit, about one topic, connected to the previous and next paragraphs. As reading is an interactive process, you have to work at constructing the meaning of the text from the marks on the paper. Try these exercises: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3, Exercise 4, Exercise 5, Exercise 6 Skimming a text using first and last paragraphs. In most academic writing, the text is organised clearly with an introduction and a conclusion. Skimming a text, using section headings.
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Mr. Anker Tests Summarizing: Advice & Tips for Teachers (Grades 1-6) Page 1 of 2 What Is It? To summarize is to put in your own words a shortened version of written or spoken material, stating the main points and leaving out everything that is not essential. Summarizing is more than retelling; it involves analyzing information, distinguishing important from unimportant elements and translating large chunks of information into a few short cohesive sentences. Fiction and nonfiction texts, media, conversations, meetings, and events can all be summarized. For example, to summarize the movie Memento, you might state: The movie Memento is a backward chronology of a man who tries to find his wife's killer, but has short-term memory loss. Why Is It Important? Summarizing allows both students and teachers to monitor comprehension of material. In a synthesis of the research on summarizing, Rosenshine and his colleagues found that strategies that emphasize the analytic aspect of summarizing have a powerful effect on how well students summarize (1996). For example: