My Writing A Text Is Difficult

A text is the content in a message or any printed material. There are basic ways that are used in reading to make the learner gain, retain, and understand the content. For instance, one way is by applying the top, down, and bottom up strategy; which people use in their native language. Reading involves, previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, guessing and paraphrasing (Tsai 120).

To truly be conversant, you have to form your own questions, not just scan for answers (107). When reading to absorb, and translate you must read actively and critically. (108) In order to do this you must, “pay attention to the actual words in a reading and to use them when you write” (Rosenwasser 108). This can be done by individually breaking down passages, and picking apart the meanings (108). When “Passing your eyes or highlighter over the text or generalizing about it or copying notes from someone else's power point will not teach you the skills to become an independent thinker” (Rosenwasser 108).

I feel that the tools listed in the article “Read Like a Graduate Student, not a Mystery Fan” are going to help me immensely as I continue my course of education. The first chapter I read, for another course that I am currently enrolled in, I read from front to back like I would normally read a chapter for enjoyment. Upon completing the reading assignment, I felt like I had retained very little information. After reading the first discussion questions required for the course, I had to re-read portions of the first chapter in order to address the topics from discussion questions. I did not read the chapter from front to back but read the introduction, then the summary and finally the content. The second reading,

Questioning/Wondering – ask questions based on material in the text. Read with an eye toward finding answers to questions.

While I like to read, writing has never been one of my favorite things. I never write because I had a passion for it, or for pleasure. I can recall in high school, whenever there was something where I was required to write more than one page I will felt discouraged. Writing should come as second nature, because after all it is putting words we speak on paper, but whenever I have to put words on paper I encounter certain issues. I have three issues when whenever I write. Documenting in-text citation and reference is a very important aspect when writing academically. I noticed that even though I have the general idea of citation and referencing I still have a lot to learn. I always want to give credit where it is due to avoid plagiarism. Being used to citing and in different format it gets confusing now

sure to understand the content being read. I plan to become an active reader useing these strategies to increases

My strategy was to preview the material before reading by looking over headings, vocabulary, and illustrations to obtain a general understanding of the topic. I would write notes using an indentation format since “research studies have shown that the use of outlines and concept maps have found positive correlations to improved reading comprehension” (Lei, Rhinehart, Howard, & Cho, (2010). Additionally, I utilized the layered reading strategy by skimming the text and identifying which sentences were important. I would re-read the noted areas for the second and third layer to engrain the information into my memory. If I did not understand the sentence, I would read around the area to understand the context.

During reading strategies are extremely helpful to me while reading my novel. I find asking questions help me better understand the novel better. For example on page 130 Miles and Alaska are playing Truth or Dare and Alaska dares Miles to “hook up” with her; and he does exactly that. I asked myself why Alaska does these things even though she has a boyfriend. This helped me understand that Alaska is an attention seeker so she does these type of things when she does have any attention from anyone. Since her boyfriend wasn't there she needed affection from someone else. This helped me understand the reason behind some of the things Alaska does. Another during reading strategy that I used was inferring. Inferring is a great strategy to use. For

This research paper is aimed at highlighting certain text features and methods of reading comprehension. It is based on qualitative research carried out through various scholarly articles and educational reports. A brief overview is presented to highlight recent research on the topic and presents various factors, such as level of interest and their effect on comprehension in reading. The relationship between

Reading is believed to be an easy task, something we all learning and develop through the years as we grow, however, is it really that simple? To reading and understanding are both essential when a student begins to read. It is a complex action that requires a multitude of different actions/components, all working at the same time, to become a successful reader. The components that are pertinent to reading are: comprehension, oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency and vocabulary. Without these components, reading may very well be irrelevant because it does not make sense to read and not understand what is being transmitted/relayed. According to the National Reading Panel (NRP), “a combination of techniques is effective for

Sometimes my comprehension gets the best of me, my comprehension gives me trouble when reading a book in class. By reading a book I may have to read the book or read the lines in the

One important thing to be considered in reading activity is the text. To improve students’ reading comprehension, teachers need to prepare the appropriate reading texts for the students. If the text is too difficult, the students will be stressed. In contrast, if it is too easy, they will not get an accurate count of their ability. Because of the reason, the teacher must look for the suitable reading text for the students.

To be a successful reader I feel as you should have a decent comprehension of the text and possibly be able to take notes of the text, When I was younger I truly never did this and sorta regret it. I feel as if I did it as a child maybe I could have a higher lexile than the one I do. From now on I will be taking notes so that I am more engaged with the text. I feel as when I become older I will get back into reading like I did as a child cause in the end I still like to read.

The goal for our students is to make meaning of what they are reading across the curriculum and in all content areas. We want them to read text effectively and with ease using strategies that are student centered. We need to teach our students to think while they are reading to strengthen their comprehension skills (Farr & Conner, 2017). We can do this by insuring students have a strong background in basic skills (Pressley, 2017). These skills are decoding, vocabulary building, word knowledge, and active comprehension strategies (Pressley, 2017). Monitoring their comprehension will also allow for future growth (Pressley, 2017). Students cannot understand the words in a text if they cannot read the words (Farr & Conner, 2017).

My biggest writing challenge this semester has been trying to think of meaningful responses to other people's discussions. This is in part because I waited until the last hour to respond and multiple people already responded to the discussions and I didn't just want to copy somebody's response. But also, it is just very hard to respond to some of the discussion topics.