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Quiz 1 Flashcards

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7 Reasons why Reading is Important

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  1. Improves brain function
  2. Improves vocabulary and communication skills
  3. Provides good stress relief
  4. Helps expand knowledge
  5. Helps increase empathy
  6. Helps improves sleep
  7. Improves focus
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  • Improves concentration
  • Improves ability to pay attention
  • Improves ability to focus for longer periods of time
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Reading is a complex mental task

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Making time for books improves memory and is shown to be personally rewarding over time

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Reading improves discipline and memory

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  • Reading expands knowledge
  • Knowledge leads to higher confidence
  • Higher confidence boosts self-esteem
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Reading builds self esteem

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Reading about new things challenges your brain to think in new ways

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Reading improves creativity

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Reading challenging books will expose you to many new words

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Reading improves vocabulary

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Our brain process descriptions by putting mental pictures

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Reading increases your imagination

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Reading gives you an insight into diversity of cultures

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Reading broadens your horizons

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  • Builds a strong sense of compassion
  • Establishes a better understanding of human nature
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Reading helps develop a strong sense of character

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Avid reader got better grades

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Improves school performance

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You speak a thousands of words everyday

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Words are our everyday tools

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12
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Suffered from a reading disorder and had a really hard time in school

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Albert Einstein

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13
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Suffered from Dyslexia

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Walt Disney

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Skipped 9th – 11th grade

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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44th Pres of US

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Pres. Barack Obama

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16
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Books open windows to the world for all of us

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Oprah Winfrey

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8th graders do not read at a proficient level

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Louis Tomlinson

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He starred in all harry potter films.

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Rupert Grint

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  • A phenomena invented by humans to help in the communication process
  • Putting letters / symbols on the surface
  • Important skill in communication
  • Highly essential because organizations need professional writers
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Writing

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Types of Writing

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  • E-mail
  • Letter/memos
  • Free wiritng
  • Essay writing
  • Independent writing
  • Narrative Writing
  • Expository Writing
  • Persuasive Writing
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Fast, easy, convenient

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Emails

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Basic vehicles of business communication

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Letters / memos

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Principles of Good Writing

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  • Purpose
  • Use clear language
  • Be objective
  • Structure
  • Choice of words
  • Punctuation
  • Grammatically correct
  • Proofread
  • Style
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A cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from the text
Reading Strategies

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Reading

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  • Looking at the readily visible parts of the text like tittles, subtitiles, and also visual graphs, pictures, and charts
  • Helps familiarize the contents
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Previewing

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  • Skimming means looking for the main points
  • Scanning means looking for specific information
  • This strategy also involves physically moving your eyes quickly along the lines of the text
  • Useful when doing research
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Skimming and Scanning

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  • Are word, phrases, and sentences that surround an unfamiliar word that help you recognize the meaning of the unknown word
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Context clues

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  • Used when the text has words that are similar
  • Like, as
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Synonyms

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  • Used when the text has words that are opposite
  • In contrast, unlike, instead
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Antonyms

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  • May be given as clues to describe an unknown words
  • Because, what is
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Explanations and Definitions

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  • These are specific details in a text that are aroused to clarify meaning of the words
  • such as, like
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Examples

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Types of Context Clues

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  1. Synonyms
  2. Antonyms
  3. Explanations and Definitions
  4. Examples
  5. Situations
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Importance of Reading

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  1. Reading is a complex mental task
  2. Reading improves discipline and memory
  3. Reading builds self esteem
  4. Reading improves creativity
  5. Reading improves vocabulary
  6. Reading increases your imagination
  7. Reading broadens your horizons
  8. Reading helps develop a strong sense of character
  9. Improves school performance
  10. Words are our everyday tools

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