Education

-What are learning styles? Why is it important to know yours?

Answer: refer to the modality through which an individual learns best.

It is important to know yours so that you can use that technique every time you learn something new

-What makes students in college successful

They are highly motivated, they plan ahead ,Focus on understanding, they are highly selective, and they are involved and attentive.

-How do you monitor comprehension as you read.

I make predictions and read over the material until it becomes clearer.

The text suggest to Periodically evaluate your understanding as you read. Identify what is bothering you .use context clues, ask for a brief explanation from someone who is knowledgeable about the topic.

How do you develop a college vocabulary? Why is it important?

-You can develop a college vocabulary by reading more,3 technique are- use context clues, use word structure clues, use a dictionary

What is connotation and denotation?

-Connotation is an additional non literal meaning associated with a word.

-Denotation is the dictionary definition.

Different types of context clues, def.clue, synonym clue, contrast clue, experience clue, Example clue, clue from another sentence.

Explain figurative language. What does the use of figurative language add to a text.

-Figurative language is a language that uses imagery, unusual comparisons or vivid words that create certain effects. It makes the material more interesting and more enjoyable. Simile, metaphor, personification, hyberbole.

Explain the reading process?

• Understanding the reading process can make you a better reader and help you study more effectively.

• Reading is a form of thinking it is not your eyes doing the thinking its your brain

• Reading requires a no unique mental or physical abilities-the processes you typically use when you read are the same process of vision reasoning and memories.

• The reading process has three stages preparing yourself to read, processing information, and reacting to what you read.

• Monitor your reading, make predictions, adjust your reading rate, knowing when to speed up or slow down

• Comprehension problems often result from a readers lack of background

• Comprehension, background knowledge and reading rate are interrelated

• Your reading strategies should fit your purpose for reading

What is an effective Reading process

• Prepare to read-preview, assess your prior knowledge, plan your reading and study time

• Ask and answer questions to enhance your reading, answer questions when you come to the end of a section

• Review by rehearsing the answers to your questions,

Why is it important to determine the topic of a paragraph ? An Essay

The topic is a single word or phrase that expresses what the author is talking about; it is important to determine the topic because it focuses your attention and helps you understand complex paragraphs more precisely.

You can determine a topic-it can appear in a heading or a title

• Bold print , color, italics

• Repeated throughout the paragraph

What is a stated main idea? How do you locate the stated main idea?

• A sentence that contains both the topic and the authors single most important point