And how can it help increase vocabulary? Independent reading is the reading we do of our own volition. It could be a romance novel, sports magazine, or local newspaper. It is anything we pick up and read because we want to read it — not because we are required to read it for a class or work. The reason independent reading promotes vocabulary growth is because we are exposed to new words and can discern their meaning through the context of what we are reading.
The greater the variety of our independent reading, the more vocabulary one is likely to assimilate. The following techniques will maximize the value of independent reading and its link to vocabulary development. Read different genres of books. A good learning strategy is to listen to the speaker several times as you read along with the text.
Did you understand what you read? Check your understanding of main ideas and details in the comprehension activities. But, be careful! The answers are not always the exact words from the reading text. Reading comprehension requires vocabulary knowledge, background knowledge, and thinking skills.
In our intermediate courses, 2nd English Course and Practice English and Reading , the readings have longer and more complex sentences.
These are important first steps to help you understand what you are reading. Read along with the text while you listen to a native speaker read it. Remember, read to learn English! After reading and listening to the passage, test your understanding with the comprehension activities.
Because these are practice activities, the text will still be on the screen. But what if we take the text away? Can you still remember the main ideas? The text is no longer on the screen and you need to remember and think about what you read in Drawing Conclusions activities in the Practice English and Reading course.
This is your chance to to show you know how to learn English with reading and thinking skills! There are many ways that reading helps you to learn English, but reading itself is an important life skill. In everyday life we use reading to get information about the world around us. There are signs on the street. Can you park your car here? I hypothesize that habitual reading will improve cognitive reading skills.
If I were to conduct a study to test my hypothesis, I would observe a younger group of children, most likely at the elementary stage of schooling. I assert that reading habits are formed at a young age, as most behaviors are. I would conduct a longitudinal study and follow the children over a number of years, recording the progression of their cognitive skills reading, word recognition, spelling, and critical thinking. This would not be an experimental study, because requiring one group of children to read habitually, or read more advanced works and telling the other to not read at all or read less complex novels would be unethical and could inhibit academic growth.
Instead, this would. At the end of the study, I can see if there is a relationship between the time spent on reading and the level of cognitive skills for each child.
Exercising your imagination will improve your ability to visualize these new worlds, characters and perspectives. Opening your mind to new ideas and new possibilities makes you more creative and more empathetic. The addition of reading to your bedtime ritual will reduce stress and train your brain to associate reading with sleep. This will make it easier to fall asleep and allow you to enter into a deeper sleep. TV, smartphone and tablet screens emit blue light which disrupts your internal clock and negatively impacts the quantity and quality of your sleep.
Avoid reading on a screen at least an hour before bed and read a physical book instead. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon. Learn More. We are also a participant in the Onnit Affiliate Program.
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