Reading Comprehension Week 1

Efficient reading skills 1.Purposeful -- Reading is purposeful  depend on our purpose. We read different texts in different ways. We know why we are reading.: – We have a question and read to find the answer. – In academic reading, we need to be flexible when we read - we may need to read quickly to find relevant sections, then read carefully when we have found what we want. General efficient reading strategies such as scanning to find the book or chapter, skimming to get the gist and careful reading of important passages are necessary as well as learning about how texts are structured in our subject. Reading involves the use of the eyes and the brain. In order to read fast, we need to use more of our brain. Reading fast means reading efficiently. This means not wasting time and using your eyes and brain together well

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2. Interactive 1.Reading is an interactive process - it is a two-way process. 2.As a reader we are not passive but active. a.we have to work at constructing the meaning from the marks on the paper, which we use as necessary. b.we construct the meaning using our knowledge of the language, our subject and the world, continually predicting and assessing. c.we need to be active all the time when we are reading. It is useful, therefore, before we start reading to try to actively remember what we know, and do not know, about the subject and as we are reading to formulate questions based on the information we have. Title, sub-titles and section heading can help us formulate question to keep us interacting.

interpretive framing Extratextual framing - using information outside the text, your background knowledge and experience, to understand texts. Intratextual framing - making use of cues from the text, such as headings and sub-headings and referential words such as "this" and "that" to understand texts. Intertextual framing - making connections with other texts you are reading to help to understand your text. Circumtextual framing - using information from the cover of the book, title, abstract, references etc. to understand the text.

Summarising and note-taking 1.Purposeful Reading is purposeful  depend on wer purpose. We read different texts in different ways. We know why we are reading.: – We have a question and we read to find the answer. – In academic reading, we need to be flexible when we read - we may need to read quickly to find relevant sections, then read carefully when we have found what we want. – General efficient reading strategies such as scanning to find the book or chapter, skimming to get the gist and careful reading of important passages are necessary as well as learning about how texts are structured in wer subject.

2. Interactive Reading is an interactive process - it is a two-way process. As a reader we are not passive but active. This means we have to work at constructing the meaning from the marks on the paper, which we use as necessary. we construct the meaning using wer knowledge of the language, wer subject and the world, continually predicting and assessing. we need to be active all the time when we are reading. It is useful, therefore, before we start reading to try to actively remember what we know, and do not know, about the subject and as we are reading to formulate questions based on the information we have. Title, sub-titles and section heading can help we formulate question to keep we interacting.

Reading skills for academic study Advice You need to learn to read efficiently - you cannot read every word of every book. You need to: scan the library to find the correct shelves, scan the shelf to find useful books, use the contents pages, indexes to find the relevant parts, skim the chapters to find out if they are useful and finally read in detail. Learning about how texts in your subject are structured will help you to read more efficiently. But most importantly, you need to read.

It was time for bed. Edward was very tired. He turned off the TV. He turned off his computer. He turned off the dining room light. He went into the bathroom. He brushed his teeth. He went into the bedroom. He put on his pajamas. He got into bed. He put his head on the pillow. He pulled the blanket up to his shoulders. He thought about all the work he had done that day. He thought about all the work he had to do the next day. He closed his eyes. He thought about his vacation in three months. That would be so nice.

SPO concept  yang merupakan struktur bahasa yang universal yang dapat digunakan untuk menganalisa struktur bahasa apapun. Struktur dasar penyusun kalimat adalah SUBJECT, PREDICATE dan COMPLEMENT (Kata keterangan). Subject adalah masalah pokok yang akan dibicarakan (harus berupa kata benda atau yang sepadannya) Predicate adalah penjelasan mengenai subject itu;. Predikat dalam sebuah kalimat harus ada, namun tidak boleh lebih dari satu. Keterangan (complement) bisa berupa kata sifat, kata benda, to infinitive, verb+ing atau verb III atau adverb.

Contoh penyusunan kalimat bahasa Indonesia. Jalan itu (adalah) licin Narkoba (adalah) sangat berbahaya PT Usaha Jaya akan membangun jalan itu Saya belajar bahasa di Universitas

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