Improving Reading Skills

Tok_Batin

Originally posted by fatin at 20-8-2004 10:08 PM:
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Tok_Batin

"For me, books have been a life-long resource--to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking." 桳ady Bird Johnson

"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors." 桱oseph Addison (1672-1719)

"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry." 桮aston Bachelard

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested." 桭rancis Bacon (1561-1626)

"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers." 桽tan Barstow

"The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command." 梂alter Benjamin

"A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators." 桵alcolm Bradbury (b.1932)

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." 桱oseph Brodsky

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." 桬dmund Burke

"A truly great book should be read in youth, once again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." 桼obertson Davies (1913-1995)

"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." 桰saac D'Israeli (1766-1848)

"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature." 桼alph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all." 桭rancois F镹elon

"Read in order to live." 桮ustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." 梂. Fusselman

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination." 桬lizabeth Hardwick (b.1916)

"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness." 桯olbrook Jackson (1874-1948)

"I am a part of everything that I have read." 桱ohn Kieran

"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time." 桳ouis L'amour (1908-1988)

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare." 桯arriet Martineau

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think." 桱ames McCosh

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate." 桯enry Miller (1891-1980)

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." 桳ady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." 桯azel Rochman

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." 桞.F. Skinner (1904-1990)

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writing so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." 桽ocrates (469-399 BC)

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." 桯enry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." 桝twood H. Townsend

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. 桱ohn Milton

A library is a hospital for the mind. 桝nonymous

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. 桯enry Ward Beecher

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. 桼alph Waldo Emerson

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. 桬dward Gibbon

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry

Tok_Batin

Tsuno Kaitaro (Editorial Director, The Book & The Computer)

When I walk, I read. During my daily commute, I read while I'm walking from my house to the train station, sitting or standing on the train, transferring from one train to another, and walking from the terminal to my office. I look up from my book only when it's absolutely necessary. In this manner I'm able to squeeze three and a half hours of reading time out of my daily routine. I can read a short book in a couple of days at that rate.

Readers should not, however, assume that my walking-reading habit is typical of the Japanese. I am definitely odd in this regard. I see few other people reading as they walk; indeed, nowadays I rarely even see people reading books on the train. Instead, they scrutinize the tiny e-mail screens on their cell phones, or play computer games. If none of these commuters read books during their commute, when do they? Surely not at work, and if they have families, they probably have little free time even on their days off. Unless they pursue a strategy like mine, the number of books they read is bound to diminish as the years go by.

I should hasten to add that I never made a conscious decision to increase my book consumption by reading as I walk. It's a habit I've had since childhood. I was a bookworm even then, and it struck me as a waste of precious time to just stroll along without thinking anything in particular. At some point I started reading while I strolled, and it became a daily habit. I suppose it's just like being a music lover who can't stand to be without his Walkman.

In the past, Japan was a nation of avid book readers -- office employees, housewives, and factory workers alike. During the early years of the 20th century, Japan underwent a rapid transformation from an agrarian society into an industrialized, urbanized one. A large, educated middle class -- one that loved to read -- was needed to sustain the new Japan, and the country developed the means of producing and distributing books in great quantities to fulfill this need. It became fashionable for every household to have its own library, even if it was just a single shelf in the living room.

But today, it seems the habit of reading no longer has a place in the daily lives of the Japanese. Even the parents and teachers who chronically complain that "kids these days have no interest in books" themselves read far less than they used to. Few adults read much besides bestsellers and business advice books. The reasons vary, but a basic one is that -- just like the high school students who are forced to spend all their free time studying for college entrance exams -- Japanese adults feel too pressed for time to indulge in such luxuries as a good, long novel.

I am not going to suggest that reading might regain its rightful place in contemporary Japanese life if only everyone would read while they walk. I don't have any such illusions. As I said, it's just my own personal quirk.

But there is one point I would like to make. We shouldn't view reading as an activity appropriate only to certain contrived situations -- the sort evoked by such cliches as "a man's home is his castle" or "bright window, clean desk" (a Chinese proverb about the ideal reading environment). If we restrict our reading impulse in this manner, we are not really allowing ourselves to make it a part of our lives. There is no "proper" way to read. If you don't like to read on your feet as I do, perhaps you enjoy reading in the bath or on the toilet. Reading is reading wherever or however you do it. The thing is to cultivate the habit early on, in whatever manner you like. When people treat reading as something to be done only in certain circumstances, it's no surprise they lose the habit.

http://www.honco.net/ge/bc/index_0303.html

Tok_Batin

Reading Quotes

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
-Logan Pearsall Smith

Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
-Holbrook Jackson

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt a hundred?
-Oliver Wendall Holmes, Sr.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an
idea of what he says, but to go off with him,
and travel in his company.
-Andre Gride

Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
-John Locke

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much.
It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.
-John Steinbeck

Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
-Henry David Thoreau

I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books
than a king who did not love reading.
-Thomas B. Macaulay

Books worth reading are worth reading twice;
and what is most important of all,
the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.
-John Morley

I love to lose myself in other men's mind's.
When I am not walking, I am reading;
I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/reading-quotes.html

Tok_Batin

KWLH adalah singkatan bagi yang berikut;
K (know) Apa yang telah diketahui (sebelum membaca)
W (want) Apa yang hendak diketahui (sebelum membaca)
L (learned) Apa yang telah diketahui (selepas membaca)
H (how) Bagaimana untuk mendapat maklumat tambahan - yang berkaitan (untuk membaca seterusnya)

Apa yang jelas dari penerangan tersebut ialah suatu teknik membaca kritis di mana pembaca;
-mengingat dahulau apa yang telah diketahui
-membayang atau menentukan apa yang ingin diketahui
-melakukan pembacaan (bahan yang telah dipilih)
-mengetahui apa yang telah diperoleh dari pembacaan yang baru dilakukan
-menentukan apa lagi yang perlu diperoleh (sekiranya perlu membuat pembacaan seterusnya)

Teknik pembacaan akan membolehkan pelajar
-mengaitkan pengetahuan yang sedia ada dengan apa yang dibaca
-menentuka apa yang telah diperoleh dari pembacaannya, dan
-menentukan apakh lagi bahan yang perlu dibaca sekiranya ingin mendapat maklumat tambahan

Tok_Batin

SQ3R ialah teknik membaca kritis yang telah diperkenalkan oleh Robinson (1961). Ia merupakan satu kaedah membaca yang memerlukan seseorang mempersoal kesesuaian maklumat yang terdapat dalam suatu bahan yang dibaca dengan tugasan yang perlu diselesaikan.

SQ3R adalah singkatan bagi;

S (survey)     tinjau

Q (question) soal/tanya

R (read)       baca

R (recite)     imbas kembali atau nyatakan secara lisan

R (review)   baca semula

Survey (tinjau) ialah langkah membaca untuk mendapatkan gambaran keseluruhan tentang apa yang terkandung di dalam bahan yang dibaca. Ini dilakukan dengan meneliti tajuk besar, tajuk-tajuk kecil, gambar-gambar atau ilustrasi, lakaran grafik, membaca perenggan pengenalan, dan perenggan terakhir di bahagian-bahagian buku atau  teks.

Di sini juga pelajar sebenarnya menggunakan teknik membaca pantas iaitu skimming dan scanning.

Question (soal atau tanya) ialah langkah yang memerlukan pelajar menyenaraikan satu siri soalan mengenai teks tersebut setelah mendapati teks tersebut berkaitan dengan keperluan tugasannya. Soalan-soalan tersebut menunjukkan keinginan pembaca tentang maklumat yang ingin diperoleh dari bahan tersebut, dan ianya menjadi garis panduan semasa membaca kelak. Pelajar akan cuba mencari jawapan kepada soalan-soalan tersebut.

Read (baca) ialah peringkat pelajar sebenarnya membaca bahan atau teks tersebut secara aktif serta mencuba mendapat segala jawapan kepada soalan-soalan yang telah disenaraiakannya sebelum ini. Ketika membaca, pelajar mungkin juga akan menyenaraikan soalan-soalan tambahan, berdasarkan perkembangan kefahaman dan keinginannya sepanjang melakukan pembacaan. Pelajar mungkin juga mempersoal pendapat atau maklumat yang terdapat yang ditemuinya.

Recite (imbas kembali) ialah peringkat yang ketiga.Setelah selesai membaca, pelajar cuba mengingat kembali apa yang telah dibaca dan meneliti segala yang telah diperoleh. Pemilihan maklumat yang sesuai dilakukan dalam konteks tugasannya. Pelajar juga boleh cuba menjawab soalan-soalan yang disenaraikan sebelumnya tanpa merujuk kepada kepada nota atau bahan yang telah dibaca.

Review (baca semula) merupakan peringkat terakhir. Pelajar membaca bahagian-bahagian buku atau teks secara berpilih untuk mengesahkan jawapan-jawapan kepada soalan yang dibuatnya di langkah ketiga. Pelajar juga memastikan tiada fakta penting yang tertinggal

http://mahirkb.tripod.com/olehbaca.htm

Tok_Batin

Anda mengalami masalah dalam membaca buku pelajaran? Terlalu banyak yang perlu dibaca? Bahan rujukan yang bertimbun perlu ditelaah?

Kali ini, Topik Teknik Pembelajaran Berkesan akan memberikan panduan bagaimana untuk memiliki kemahiran "membaca cepat". Teknik ini akan membantu anda di dalam mengatasi masalah untuk membaca banyak bahan bacaan di dalam masa yang singkat, sekiranya dipraktikkan dengan betul.

Ikutilah langkah seperti di bawah:

-Berikan tumpuan penuh kepada bahan yang dibaca dengan melalui mata dan fikiran yang betul-betul difokuskan kepada apa yang dibaca. Jangan berfikir perkara lain selain daripada apa yang sedang dibaca.

-Letakkan jari telunjuk di atas baris pertama pada perkataan pertama. Ini membantu anda memfokus tempat yang sedang dibaca.

-Gerakkan jari telunjuk ke kanan dengan cepat tanpa menggerakkan kepala dan bibir. Ini kerana kepala dan bibir merupakan antara gangguan kepada tumpuan untuk membaca dengan cepat.

-Sambil membaca, ingatkan isi penting dan jika perlu, gariskan isi penting tersebut bagi memudahkan proses ulangkaji dan bacaan semula.

-Kadar kelajuan bacaan boleh ditingkatkan melalui latihan yang kerap. Mulakan dengan petikan yang mudah dan tingkatkan latihan dengan petikan yang semakin susah.

Pembaca yang baik boleh membaca 200 patah perkataan seminit dengan pemahaman 70 hingga 80 peratus bagi bacaan kali pertama.

Selamat membaca!

http://www.teennet.com.my/art_19.html

seribulan

Originally posted by Tok_Batin at 1/9/04 06:31 AM:
KWLH adalah singkatan bagi yang berikut;
K (know) Apa yang telah diketahui (sebelum membaca)
W (want) Apa yang hendak diketahui (sebelum membaca)
L (learned) Apa yang telah diketahui (selepas me ...

:hmm:bagus utk student2 ni...

tq, Tok...:tq:

seribulan

link yg amat bagus...pelbagai link2 yg lain dipaparkan...

http://lib.upm.edu.my/iisrea.html

The following list is to aid you in finding relevant educational resources on the World Wide Web on Reading Skills.

Being a Flexible Reader (by Gail Kluepfel)
Before you can learn to read faster, you need to establish your reading rate. Take out your watch. See how many pages an hour you can read in each of your courses (times vary, depending on the material). Once you have an accurate estimate of your reading rate, you can better plan your reading time.
http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/FlxRed3.htm

Defining of Note Taking
What is Note Taking? - Note Taking is the written recording of important ideas from texts or lectures.
http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/NotTak1.htm

Defining Text Reading
What is Text Reading?
http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/TxtRed1.htm

http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/FlxRed.htm">Flexibility in Reading
Definition Tips for Comprehension and Retention Being a Flexible Reader Tips for Studying Difficult Text Additional Resources
http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/FlxRed.htm

Graffiti for ESL Readers (by Brent Buhler)
roviding language support within content-based instruction requires the use of articles written within a professional community that are often beyond ESL/EFL students' normal ability. Enabling these students to incorporate the material is a process of reducing anxiety and increasing top-down reading skills...
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ ... r-ContentBased.html

Guidelines for Note Taking (by Pat Grove)
A. General Guidelines - 1.Take note of special vocabulary terms. Underline difficult words in your notes, then go back later and place questions for them in the Question Column. These are words whose meanings you should know so that the material makes sense to you.
http://www.stthomas.edu/www/lab_http/sgs/NotTak2.htm

How To Improve Your Reading Skills (By Ms. Paula Y. Arons)
Much of what you learn in school comes from the pages of a book. Some kids find it frustrating to be told to read and summarize, or read and answer questions when they are not even sure...
http://www.bmpub.com/hh22.html

How to Read Nonfictional English Texts Faster and More Effectively A 'Standard Reading Exercise' for ESL-Students (by Helmut Stiefenh鰂er)
Introductory remarks:With the 'flood' of written information available,either in the traditional way, i.e. on paper, or via the 'World Wide Web' fast and effective reading (in English) has become a (foreign) language competence equal in importance to speaking competence...
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ ... er-FastReading.html

How To Read University Texts or Journal Articles
Choose a section preferrably not longer than 25 or 30 pages

i used to go this site..
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
but i didn't hav the courage to share...til i post it now...

tambah sket yer Tok


PROOFREADING
Proofreading is not an innate ability; it is an acquired skill. The following exercises will help you master it, or at any rate will impress you with how difficult it is.

Hints for successful proofreading:
-Cultivate a healthy sense of doubt. If there are types of errors you know you tend to make, double check for those.
-Read very slowly. If possible, read out loud. Read one word at a time.
-Read what is actually on the page, not what you think is there. (This is the most difficult sub-skill to acquire, particularly if you wrote what you are reading).
-Proofread more than once. If possible, work with someone else.

Most errors in written work are made unconsciously. There are two sources of unconscious error:
1. Faulty information from the kinesthetic memory. If you have always misspelled a word like accommodate", you will unthinkingly misspell it again.
2. A split second of inattention. The mind works far faster than the pen or typewriter.

It is the unconscious nature of the worst that makes proofreading so difficult. The student who turned in a paper saying, "I like girdle cakes for breakfast" did not have a perverted digestion. He thought he had written "griddle cakes" and because that's what he was sure he had written, that's what he "saw" when he proofread. If he had slowed down and read word by word, out loud, he might have caught the error. You have to doubt every word in order to catch every mistake.

Another reason for deliberately slowing down is that when you read normally, you often see only the shells of words -- the first and last few letters, perhaps. You "fix your eyes" on the print only three or four times per line, or less. You take in the words between your fixation points with your peripheral vision, which gets less accurate the farther it is from the point. The average reader can only take in six letters accurately with one fixation. This means you have to fix your eyes on almost every word you have written and do it twice in longer words, in order to proofread accurately. You have to look at the word, not slide over it.

In proofreading, you can take nothing for granted, because unconscious mistakes are so easy to make. It helps to read out loud, because 1) you are forced to slow down and 2) you hear what you are reading as well as seeing it, so you are using two senses. It is often possible to hear a mistake, such as an omitted or repeated word that you have not seen.

Professional editors proofread as many as ten times. Publishing houses hire teams of readers to work in pairs, out loud. And still errors occur.

Remember that it is twice as hard to detect mistakes in your own work as in someone else's!

VOCABULARY: an on going process
How do I begin to increase my vocabulary?
Vocabulary is an on going process. It continues throughout your life. what you have done is to slow your effective method of learning vocabulary down to a snail's pace. When you were younger you learned something day in and day out. You kept squeezing every moment of the day into a new and different learning situation. You continually asked questions and drove yourself to learn more. Look at the following examples:

at the age of 4 you probably knew 5,600 words
at the age of 5 you probably knew 9,600 words
at the age of 6 you probably knew 14,700 words
at the age of 7 you probably knew 21,200 words
at the age of 8 you probably knew 26,300 words
at the age of 9 you probably knew 29,300 words
at the age of 10 you probably knew 34,300 words
college sophomore you probably knew 120,000 words

What this tells you is the more you learn, the more vocabulary you will know. No matter what your age, you must continue to learn. Words are "symbols" for ideas. These ideas formulate knowledge and knowledge is gained largely through words.


Some suggestions which may help you:
-Read. the more you read, the more words you will come in contact with.
-Use new found vocabulary in your everyday communication (writing, speaking).
-Become familiar with the glossary of your textbooks.
-Become familiar with the dictionary. Understand the pronunciation keys as well as why there are multiple meanings for words.
-Try to learn 5 new words a day. If you know these words - use them in your communication process. Without using these new words, it is a waste of your time.

Read. Read books from fields other than your major. Read books which interest you and concentrate while you read.

:bgrin:

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
And inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx.

aku pon rajen gak bace ni..
buku cite satu rak lebeh aku ade..
tu yng dalam rak..
yang suson kat bawah tb.. sorok blakang petek aes
banyak lagilaa buku yang aku bace..
tapi tak satu pon yang aku simpan daam stor.
kalo simpan dalam stor buku..
alamat minat membacetebantot laaa..