Tham khảo tài liệu 'college test english 2', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | C-H-A-P-T-E-R 3 READING COMPREHENSION SUMMARY Does this sound familiar to you You ve just read two whole pages of text and you can t remember a thing you ve read. You read it again this time determined to get it right. You stop midway you start yet again. You give up and put the book away for later. Just like writer s block stops you from writing drifting away while reading can be terribly frustrating and it can derail an otherwise determined academic career. So why is it so difficult to read effectively Is there anything you can do about it Let s start by defining effective reading. For most academic reading whether it is a textbook non-fiction a novel or short story fiction or a piece of poetry effective reading should mean that you can paraphrase or put in your own words what you have just read. You should also be able to identify the main idea identify facts or details which support the main idea draw inferences interpret visual information identify vocabulary distinguish fact from opinion recognize an organizational pattern LearningExpress Skill Builders CHAPTER 3 49 BASIC SKILLS FOR COLLEGE All that every time I read you say. The answer is yes. Absolutely. Undeniably. Completely. And if you sit down to read knowing that you have to accomplish as many as five or six of the above skills then you ll know that you can never sit down to read an assignment when you are tired distracted in a hurry or otherwise likely to be interrupted. Reading just like writing requires patience and concentration. Most important it requires specific strategies that you can learn to help make you a more effective reader. MAIN IDEA Let s start with the following non-fiction passage about crocodiles. A crocodile can grow to a length of 20 feet weigh half a ton and tackle a 900-pound buffalo that wanders past at lunchtime. A crocodile can stay under water for 2y hours without a breath of air by slowing his heartbeat and going into semi-hibernation. He can outrun a man in a 100-yard dash
