1. the basic of all study skills
1.1 Ready to begin, get motivated:
1) Read for purpose: you need to clearly define:
- your reason make you have to read?
- A question you want answer
- Fact you have to remember
- ideas you need to grasp
- current events that effect you
or just pleasure of following a well-written story
2) read and digest the concepts and ideas the author is trying to communicate
3) you read critically and ask questions to evaluate where the author's arguments are reasonable or totally off-the-wall. You should recognise biases and don't just believe everything you read
4) You should read variety of books, magazines , and newspapers and enjoy all types of reading-fiction, poetry, biography, current events.
5) you should enjoy and embrace it as an essential tool in your desire to better yourself
1.2 To increase your reading speed
1) focus your attention and concentration
2) eliminate outside distractions
3) comfortable environment
4) don't hang up on single words or sentences (but do look up dictionary key words that must understand in order to grasp an entire concepts.
5) try to grasp overall concepts rather than attempting to understand every detail.
6) if you find yourself moving your lips when you read you can practice with a pen in your mouth, if it falls out while you are reading, you know you need to keep working
7) work on building your vocabulary
8) Read more...more offten
9) Avoid rereading words or phrases
1.3 To increase Comprehension
Summarise what you read, rephrasing it in your notes in your own words.
Don't remember less ... faster
grasping the main idea
gathering the fact
figuring out the sequence of events
drawing conclusions
2. Reading with purpose
2.1 defining your purpose for reading
grasp a certain message
find important details
answer the specific question
evaluate what you are reading
apply what you are reading
to be entertained
2.2 Find a clue in every book
- Read table of contents in the book
- Read preface - a description of the information you will find in the book. The author will point out unique aspects of their book.
- read tittle of a chapter, you will know the main in the chapter.
- read end-of-chapter summaries
- look at pictures, graphs, and charts
- highlighted terms, Vocabulary, and other facts
- Question in the end of the chapter.
2.3 Reading faster without speed reading
- "likewise", :in addition", "moreover", "furthermore" ...
- "on the other hand", "nevertheless", "however", "rather", "but",
3. Finding the main idea
- the topic sentence of a paragraph?
- summary sentences? (state a general idea or concept)
- supporting sentences? ( provide specific details)
- Transitional statements? (move the author from one point to another)
* recognising a topic sentence
- Rewrite a headline of the paragraph
- write a five-word summary describing what the paragraph is about
- answer some question: who, when, where, why, how
* taking note
4. Gathering the fact