Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

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How? Reading every day can improve our communication skills in a few ways. For example, reading can influence your writing and increase your vocabulary.

What these organisations have in common is that they’ve all introduced some form of unconscious-bias training, which educates people about the knee-jerk preconceptions they hold and how these beliefs may affect their actions. Effective note-making is an important practice to master at university. You have a lot of new knowledge and youneed to develop reliable mechanisms for recording and retrieving it when necessary. But note-makingis also a learning process in itself, helping you to process and understand the information you receive.As a result, the UK's National Health Service (NHS) began a book prescription program called Reading Well . This service prescribes self-help books curated by medical experts for certain conditions. What the text describes: you should be confident that you have understood the text sufficiently to be able to use your own examples and compare and contrast with other writing on the subject in hand. Children and women were thought particularly susceptible to these fictive worlds. The female novel reader reclining in an armchair was a focus for the sort of disapproval directed towards couch potatoes today. As the philosopher and early feminist Hannah More put it, disapprovingly, women’s focus on reading served “to feed habits of improper indulgence, and nourish a vain and visionary indolence, which lays the mind open to error and the heart to seduction”. There was only a short step from absorbed reading to ruin.

always recording the necessary details for any source you useas soon asyou start taking notes. Don't wait till you've finished reading - you may forget, ormisplace the text. Be an active listener - not a sponge -try to connect what is being said to what you already know (this is where the preparation bit comes in handy!). Ask yourself, do I agree? How does it fit in with what I already knew? Am I surprised ? If not, why not? How did she get to that conclusion? The easiest way to do this uses Adobe Acrobat. This offers two basic annotating tools, found in the task bar at the top of the screen: highlighting and the ability to add comments.

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Some people may be interested in local new whilst others prefer to look at what is happening globally. Articles about the rich and famous are always popular. Another study discovered that reading is the best way to reduce stress – compared to taking a walk, having a cup of tea or coffee, and playing video games. The study found that even six minutes of reading can be enough to reduce stress levels by more than two-thirds. Critical reading means being able to reflect on what a text says, what it describes and what it means by scrutinising the style and structure of the writing, the language used as well as the content. One study found that older adults who regularly read or play mentally challenging games like chess are two and a half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. In fact, one study discovered that 69% of employers are looking to hire people with "soft" skills, such as effective communication.

Ifit's a completely newtopic, try to get a basic idea of what it's about beforehand - read an introductoryparagraph from a textbook or encyclopaedia, for instance. Think about what you know about the topic already, and what you expect or hope to learn from the lecture The best part? You can get all these benefits of reading books while enjoying some fantastic entertainment. In another study , researchers measured how reading a novel affects our brains. The study's participants read the novel "Pompeii" by Robert Harris, and as tension in the story developed, more areas of the brain were activated.Losing yourself in a book is the ultimate relaxation," said Dr. David Lewis, the cognitive neuropsychologist who conducted the study.