RNW

• Reading - complex cognitive process of decoding symbols.
• Technique - way of doing something.
• Reading Techniques - styles, system or practices in decoding symbols.
• Conginitive Process - operiation that affects mental health, the process of thinking and remembering.
• Decoding - to understand the meaning of something
• Derive - to receive or obtain something special in specified source.
• Language Acquisition - the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.
• Skimming - the method of rapidly moving the eyes over text.
• Skimming is useful in 3 different situations.

  • Pre-reading
  • Reviewing
  • Reading
• Pre-reading - more through than simple previewing and can give a more accurate picture.
• Reviewing - reviewing text that is already read.
• Reading - used for quickly reading material that does not need more detail.
• Scanning - rapidly covers a great deal of material in order to locate a specific fact.
• Phrase Reading - focus our attention on phrases.
• Phrase - a group of words that go together to mean something.
• Clustering - very powerful and simple exercise designed to help develop necessary skills to phrase reading.
• Non-Prose Reading - visual form that summarize information and ideas through words.
• Graph - visual representation of quantitative information.
• Diagrams - made up of line and symbols that shows interrelationship of parts.
• Charts - visuals that summarize data and describes a set of relationship.
• Maps - flat representation of the earth.
• What are the 4 reading techniques?

  • Skimming
  • Scanning
  • Phrase Reading
  • Non-Prose Reading
• Several types of graphic materials:

  • Graphs
  • Diagram
  • Charts
  • Maps