Reading and approaches to reading strategies. I am an ardent reader who reads for hours as a hobby. Most times while reading‚ I would subconsciously scan ‚skim‚ mind map and take notes ‚ just for the pleasure of it without really knowing that these are very important concepts in Metacognitive awareness of reading strategies. After listening to the presentation and reading through the article by Kouider Mokhtari and Carla Areichard‚I realized that metacognition provides personal insights into a person’s
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com/skill-builder/reading-comprehension/48617.html Questions Before‚ During‚ and After Reading What Is It? To aid their comprehension‚ skillful readers ask themselves questions before‚ during‚ and after they read. You can help students become more proficient by modeling this process for them and encouraging them to use it when they read independently. Why Is It Important? Dolores Durkin’s research in 1979 showed that most teachers asked students questions after they had read‚ as opposed
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The movie I chose was “Walk the Line”. The biography chronicles the early lives of Johnny and June Carter Cash and the struggles they dealt with in their personal lives and careers. Johnny (or J.R. as he was originally named) was one of Ray and Carrie Cash’s seven children and grew up on a poor cotton farm in rural Arkansas. As the movie begins‚ it introduces the viewer to Johnny’s mother‚ who taught him to sing gospel songs‚ his father‚ who was a heavy drinker and verbally abusive at times to
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Do you dread completing tasks or does it provide amusement? In the book How to Read And Learn Paul and Elder list specific virtues that should be intertwined in a student’s life. The authors state‚ "As a student‚ you need to cultivate not only intellectual abilities‚ but intellectual dispositions as well." They push that rather than doing daily tasks because you are told do‚ do them with so much energy that it becomes enjoyable. However‚ I believe dispositions are not necessary in a student’s life
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recognized artistic value:"Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity" (Rebecca West). 3. The art or occupation of a literary writer. 4. The body of written work produced by scholars or researchers in a given field:medical literature. 5. Printed material: collected all the available literature on the subject. 6. Music All the compositions of a certain kind or for a specific instrument or ensemble: the symphonic literature. 1. written material such
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How the Power of Literature Has Affected My Life - Value of Literature Alex Sidorov English 101 Alex Sidorov Thompson English 101 May 27‚ 2009 How the Power of Literature Has Affected My Life - Value of Literature If you asked me how much I valued literature a few months ago‚ I would have probably laughed it off and proclaimed it has no value because it does not affect me. What kind of value could literature possibly have? It is just books. Random characters dealing with their random problems
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The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Last night‚ I finished reading "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho. Ok‚ I know you can’t believe I only read it now‚ everyone already said that to me‚ and looked at me in that weird way as if I was living on Mars for the last few years. But well‚ I only got to read it now‚ and I totally loved it. A friend of mine told me a few days ago when I started reading "The Alchemist" that it was the kind of book that would either change your life or change your conception of
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of the most influential thinkers in world history formed contrasting ideas on the concept of the soul. On one hand‚ Plato’s idea of the soul was created based on his theory of forms‚ as illustrated through a conceptual apparatus called “The Divided Line”. In this diagram‚ concepts of the absolute‚ such as the essence of absolute good‚ come from forms and ideas‚ which are eventually processed into the physical world as images in our minds. These images can then once again be manipulated into forms
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ISP Alex Macbeth 140431 “Hussein Literature or literature by Hussein? A 21st Century re-analysis of the Swahili dramatist Ebrahim Hussein’s works‚ with specific emphasis on Mashetani (Demons)‚ and their relevance today. ” TUTOR: DR KWADWO OSEI-NYAME “Hussein Literature or literature by Hussein? A 21st Century re-analysis of the Swahili dramatist Ebrahim Hussein’s works‚ with specific emphasis on Mashetani (Demons)‚ and their relevance today. ” You speak about
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What is Literature? What is literature? Nowadays‚ literature seems to be slowly depleting. Much of this generation’s youth are what we now call‚ illiterate. The advancements of technologies gradually helped the adolescents to become lazier. For example‚ text messaging. I know text messaging is a fun and easy way to communicate with your friends‚ but the amount of laziness teenagers put into it is completely ridicule. Spelling “u” instead of “you” is one example. Another example--by far is the
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