Reading Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills Read the text as you listen to it on an audio book. Take advantage of audio books. Read a page and then listen to that page. Repeat once a day. Read aloud to each other in small groups. Each student is responsible for explaining new vocabulary in...

Reading Tips to Improve Your Grammar Focus on various tenses or forms, by highlighting examples of a specific form in a text you are reading. Highlight all auxiliary verbs in a text. Discuss which tenses take the highlighted auxiliary verbs. Choose a few sentences from your reading...

Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Discuss the article together. Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Each person should write down five questions about the article and...

Reading Tips to Improve Your Vocabulary Construct vocabulary trees from short stories or articles you are reading. Build mind maps based on the stories or articles you are reading. Photocopy a page or an article and highlight all the words you do not understand. Look up...

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The Art of Close Reading (Part Three) by Richard Paul and Linda Elder In the previous two columns we introduced the idea of close reading, emphasizing the importance of the following:    • understanding your purpose in...

The Art of Close Reading (Part Two) Linda Elder and Richard Paul In the previous article we introduced the idea of close reading, which is reading with an emphasis on: understanding your purpose in reading    understanding the author’s purpose...

The Art of Close Reading (Part One) To read well requires one to develop one’s thinking about reading and, as a result, to learn how to engage in the process of what we call close reading. Students not only need to learn how to determine whether a text is worth reading, but...

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies Most of us are not what we could be. We are less. We have great capacity. But most of it is dormant; most is undeveloped. Improvement in thinking is like improvement in basketball, in ballet, or in playing the saxophone. It...

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