Many students who struggle with reading ask why should we read, what is the point? The point is that being able to read opens you up a whole new world of knowledge and imagination. But to have that new world opened up you need to be able to comprehend what you are reading. The primary goal of reading is to determine the meaning of what the writer is communicating and make the most of that information. That’s why reading comprehension skills are so important. Without them the reader cannot gather any information and use it to efficiently function and enjoy the richness of life (Marshall).…
The main distinction between these two groups is whether they distance their personal vagaries from the reading of a text or not. Lewis stresses that those who don’t bother with trying to become an ideal reader may nevertheless be lovers of reading, while the so-called…
Bibliography: Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading. New York: Bedford/ St. Martin 's, 2002.…
Mike Bunn observes diverse of methods and tactics for reading in his essay “How to Read Like a Writer”. This helps the readers become a better writer by just reading over what we read with the mindset of a writer, rather than reading to gain a common understanding of context or with the goal of completing a piece for the fulfillment of a grade.…
Freire, Paulo. “The Importance of the Act of Reading.” Academic Universe: Research and Writing at Oklahoma State University. Eds. Richard Frohock, Karen Sisk, Jessica Glover, Joshua Cross, James Burbaker, Jean Alger, Jessica Fokken, Kerry Jones, Kimberly Dyer-Fisher, and Ron Brooks. 2nd ed. Plymouth: Hayden-McNeil, 2012. 281-286. Print.…
The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds. In the quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistracted reading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation, for that matter, we make our own associations, draw our own inferences and analogies, foster our own ideas.…
Hans Robert Jauss, a German academic notable for his work in reception theory, divides the reading process into two parts: understanding and interpretation. He suggests that the first reading of a literary text is that of an aesthetical understanding of the work based upon first impressions. Since a reader cannot obtain a clear understanding of the overall story until the last line, Jauss states that “analysis cannot begin with the question of the significance of the particular within the achieved form of the whole; rather, it must pursue the significance still left open in the process of perception that the text, like a ‘score’, indicates for the reader” (141). It is only by the second reading of a text that a reader can truly understand the ways in which each part of the story connects and weaves into the larger picture. This process of reading requires the reader to make tentative probabilities based on expectations from what they understand of the text on their first reading.…
Fish claims that readers are instructed to look at texts in ways that will produce what they expect to see. This analysis does not support the suggestion that the individual reader gives the text meaning. Cleanth Brooks, an influential literary critic, does not refute Fish’s idea, but Brooks…
Author makes a good point that a student must do the learning when a teacher is helping them understand a material.I believe that together the student and teacher must put the effort to help each other. When a student doesn't understand a material a teacher should always help the student regardless if the teacher has explained it thousands of times before.A student when they are reaching out for help they should always make the effort to learn something even if they believe it is impossible for them to learn it.When you study what you've learn you have a higher chance of retaining the information in vs when you do not study or even pay attention to the lesson .…
One of the reading techniques, ‘extensive reading’ is cited from Palmer by Day and Bamford (1998). They suggest that “a reader’s attention should be on the meaning, not the language, of the text”. Establishing meaning and understanding context, they concur is the most valuable tool when learning to express and develop opinions when writing and reading.…
The way people read newspapers and the way they read text books aren’t same. The way they read journal is not the way they study magazines. So reading varies in many ways. Whatever we read if we need to understand and memorize readings, we have to read actively. To read actively we follow some steps.…
References: Hendricks, H., & Hendricks, W. (2007). Living by the Book: the art and science of reading the…
Iser, Wolfgang. "Interaction between Text and Reader." Readers and Reading. Ed. Andrew Bennett. London: Longman, 1995. 20-31.…
Being proactive as a reader also allows us to comprehend and store the information the author is providing us. Nothing is worse than being asked about a text you have read only to have the screen inside our minds draw a complete blank. Actively reading and asking questions throughout takes us off of the “sidelines” and puts us “in the game” . Engaging with the writer’s dialogue not only reinforces certain points but forces us to re-read, perhaps finding an answer to our question somewhere else.…
Reading is something people can not live with out it. All heavenly religions call for reading. Reading widens our horizons. It keeps our minds quite open. . Reading has a lot of advantages. First, it enriches our vocabulary. The more you read the more new words you know with that way you improves your conversation skills by knowing the current language. Besides, when you read literature or fiction, it develops your mental thinking. However; many people do not know how to read efficiently. You will make good use of reading if you following the following steps.…