bạn có thể phân chia 40 trang thành bốn phần của 10 trang mỗi? Hoặc là chương đã được chia thành các phần mà bạn có thể sử dụng như là điểm bắt đầu và dừng lại? | PRE-READING STRATEGIES 15 can you divide those 40 pages into four sections of 10 pages each Or is the chapter already divided into sections that you can use as starting and stopping points In general if the text you re reading is only a few pages say less than five you probably don t need to break up the task into different reading sessions. But if it s more than five pages you ll probably benefit from breaking it into two halves. If you find the first half goes really well go ahead jump right into the second. But you ll feel more confident knowing that you can take it one section at a time. The Benefits of Starting and Stopping By breaking up a text into manageable tasks you do more than just reduce frustration. You also improve the chances that you ll remember more. That s because your brain can only absorb so much information in a certain amount of time. Especially if the text is filled with facts or ideas that are new to you you need to give yourself time to absorb that information. Breaking the reading into manageable tasks gives you a chance to digest the information in each section. In addition simply because of the way the human mind works people tend to remember most what comes first and what comes last. Think about the last movie you saw for example. If you re like most people you can probably remember exactly how it began and exactly how it ended. You know what happened in the middle of course but those details aren t as clear as the details of the beginning and the end. This is just the nature of the learning process. Thus if you break up a reading task into several sections there are more starting and stopping points more beginnings and endings to remember. There will be less material in the middle to be forgotten. Scheduling Breaks Part of breaking up a reading task means scheduling in breaks. If you ve divided 40 pages into four sections of ten pages each be sure to give yourself a brief pause between each section. Otherwise you lose the benefits you
