Quiz 1 Flashcards
7 Reasons why Reading is Important
- Improves brain function
- Improves vocabulary and communication skills
- Provides good stress relief
- Helps expand knowledge
- Helps increase empathy
- Helps improves sleep
- Improves focus
- Improves concentration
- Improves ability to pay attention
- Improves ability to focus for longer periods of time
Reading is a complex mental task
Making time for books improves memory and is shown to be personally rewarding over time
Reading improves discipline and memory
- Reading expands knowledge
- Knowledge leads to higher confidence
- Higher confidence boosts self-esteem
Reading builds self esteem
Reading about new things challenges your brain to think in new ways
Reading improves creativity
Reading challenging books will expose you to many new words
Reading improves vocabulary
Our brain process descriptions by putting mental pictures
Reading increases your imagination
Reading gives you an insight into diversity of cultures
Reading broadens your horizons
- Builds a strong sense of compassion
- Establishes a better understanding of human nature
Reading helps develop a strong sense of character
Avid reader got better grades
Improves school performance
You speak a thousands of words everyday
Words are our everyday tools
Suffered from a reading disorder and had a really hard time in school
Albert Einstein
Suffered from Dyslexia
Walt Disney
Skipped 9th – 11th grade
Martin Luther King Jr.
44th Pres of US
Pres. Barack Obama
Books open windows to the world for all of us
Oprah Winfrey
8th graders do not read at a proficient level
Louis Tomlinson
He starred in all harry potter films.
Rupert Grint
- A phenomena invented by humans to help in the communication process
- Putting letters / symbols on the surface
- Important skill in communication
- Highly essential because organizations need professional writers
Writing
Types of Writing
- Letter/memos
- Free wiritng
- Essay writing
- Independent writing
- Narrative Writing
- Expository Writing
- Persuasive Writing
Fast, easy, convenient
Emails
Basic vehicles of business communication
Letters / memos
Principles of Good Writing
- Purpose
- Use clear language
- Be objective
- Structure
- Choice of words
- Punctuation
- Grammatically correct
- Proofread
- Style
A cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from the text
Reading Strategies
Reading
- Looking at the readily visible parts of the text like tittles, subtitiles, and also visual graphs, pictures, and charts
- Helps familiarize the contents
Previewing
- Skimming means looking for the main points
- Scanning means looking for specific information
- This strategy also involves physically moving your eyes quickly along the lines of the text
- Useful when doing research
Skimming and Scanning
- Are word, phrases, and sentences that surround an unfamiliar word that help you recognize the meaning of the unknown word
Context clues
- Used when the text has words that are similar
- Like, as
Synonyms
- Used when the text has words that are opposite
- In contrast, unlike, instead
Antonyms
- May be given as clues to describe an unknown words
- Because, what is
Explanations and Definitions
- These are specific details in a text that are aroused to clarify meaning of the words
- such as, like
Examples
Types of Context Clues
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Explanations and Definitions
- Examples
- Situations
Importance of Reading
- Reading is a complex mental task
- Reading improves discipline and memory
- Reading builds self esteem
- Reading improves creativity
- Reading improves vocabulary
- Reading increases your imagination
- Reading broadens your horizons
- Reading helps develop a strong sense of character
- Improves school performance
- Words are our everyday tools
