Summary
of learning express editor e-book
Fadhil
mhd (1105971)
K3/2011
this books gives many kinds type of reading comprehension ,
Pretest:
This test to measure
you understand about reading.
A,BUILDING A STRONG
FOUNDATION:
The five lessons that
follow cover the basics of reading comprehension:
■ fi nd the basic facts in a passage.
■ determine the main idea of a passage.
■ determine the meaning of unfamiliar words from context.
■ distinguish between fact and opinion.
A1)GETTING THE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
What Are the Facts? By reading this question
, the essential info will come out from the passage and understandable.
A fact is
■ something
that we know for certain to have happened.
■ something
that we know for certain to be true.
■ something
that we know for certain to exist.
Chapter 1:
GETTING THE ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
The first step
in increasing your reading comprehension is to learn how to get the basic
information. Like a good detective, start with the basic facts. To get the
facts, be an active reader and look for clues as you read.
2 FINDING THE MAIN IDEA
A detective
finds the facts to determine “whodunit” and what the motive was. A reader
determines the facts not only for their own sake but also to find out why the
author is writing: What’s the main idea? This lesson shows you how to determine
the main idea of what you read
3. DEFINING
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
An active reader
looks up unfamiliar words. But what if you don’t have a dictionary? In a
testing situation (or, for that matter, if you’re reading on the bus), you
almost certainly won’t be able to look up words you don’t know. Instead, you
can use the context to help you determine the meaning
If you are
unfamiliar with a particular word, use context clues to try to fi gure out its
meaning. Draw upon the important clues in the sentences that appear directly
before and after the unfamiliar word or passage. Punctuation can help you decipher unfamiliar
words:
■ Parentheses
are often used to highlight or
explain words or
phrases and elaborate on the words that precede them.
■ An
exclamation point appears in a sentence
in which some
kind of surprise, shock, or excitement is taking place.
■ Commas
often set off non-restrictive
elements that
provide additional information and elaboration on a word.
Example: I
wanted to buy a digital camera
with a zoom
lens, which is very costly.
(The phrase
“which is very costly” provides added information that can be used to fi gure
out the meaning of the words that come before the phrase.)
4.THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND OPINION
To make sense of what you read, you must be able to tell whether
you’re reading fact or opinion. This lesson tells you how to distinguish what
someone knows for certain from what
someone believes.
5. PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
getting the facts, finding the main idea, determining what words
mean in context, and distinguishing between fact and opinion. In this lesson,
you’ll get vital practice in using all four skills at once.
6.START FROM THE BEGINNING: DEFINING VOCABULARY IN
CONTEXT
This lesson focuses on one of the simplest structures writers use:
chronological order, or arrangement of events by the order in which they
occured.
7. ORDER OF IMPORTANCE
This lesson shows you how writers use order of importance— from
least to most important or from most to least important. Understanding this
commonly used structure improves your reading comprehension
by helping you see what’s most important in a piece of writing.
8 SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES: COMPARE AND CONTRAST
This lesson explores another organizational pattern writers often
use to structure their writing: comparison and contrast.
9 WHY DO THINGS HAPPEN? A LOOK AT CAUSE AND EFFECT
“One
thing leads to another”— that’s the principle behind cause and effect.
Understanding cause and effect, and the relationship between them, will make
you a better reader.
10.BEING STRUCTURALLY SOUND: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
This
lesson gives you more practice in discerning the structure of a reading passage.
10a.LANGUAGE
AND STYLE
■
Point of view
■
Diction
■
Style
■
Tone
11. A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE:
POINT OF VIEW
This lesson introduces you to the
concept of point of view, one strategy writers use to convey their
meaning to readers. Aspects such as whether writers use the more subjective I
or the more objective one, whether they address readers as you or
merely refer to an anonymous they, infl uence how readers understand
what the writer has written.
My comments about this e-book:
This e-book is the good book for secondary
student and college student. It is because the contain of the book that
understandable and have much knowledge that can improve our reading skill. This
book also has a plus point because it gives a training or drill to make sure
the reader understand about the
material. It suchgood idea for another education book that give a knowledge
about something important to give such a drill or personal training. In the
result , 20 minutes of reading will effective to improve your reading
comprehension.
