Improve Your Reading
Published on 31. July 2018
144 pages
978-1-5040-5525-3 (ISBN)
Description
Proven strategies for better reading skills-from comprehension, focus, and retention to overcoming challenges such as ADD.
Whether it's for education or enjoyment, reading can be challenging. Understanding and remembering what you've read, and keeping focus and concentration when you have to read long or difficult texts, takes certain skills. Luckily, those skills can be learned and improved. In
Improve Your Reading, education expert Ron Fry offers practical solutions to the reading-related frustrations all readers-and students-face. No gimmicks, no tricks, just proven techniques for any course, any academic level, any situation, and anyone in need of the essential tools to succeed in the classroom and beyond.
You'll discover:
- Basic, necessary study skills
- How to read with a purpose
- How to focus on the main idea
- How to overcome the challenges of technical texts
- The art of becoming a critical reader
- Ways to retain information
- Advice on how to start building your own library
- Tips for reading with ADD or other challenges
- Ideas for parents to help their children
- Ways for teachers to encourage their students
More details
Person
Ron Fry has written more than forty books, including the bestselling
101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and
101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader on a variety of job-search and hiring topics and the founder and president of Career Press. Fry lives in New Jersey with his family.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword: Read On!
- Chapter 1: The Basis of All Study Skills
- Chapter 2: Reading with Purpose
- Chapter 3: Finding the Main Idea
- Chapter 4: Gathering the Facts
- Chapter 5: The Challenge of Technical Texts
- Chapter 6: Becoming a Critical Reader
- Chapter 7: Reading the Literature
- Chapter 8: Focusing Your Mind
- Chapter 9: Retaining the Information
- Chapter 10: Let's Read Up on ADD
- Chapter 11: Build Your Own Library
- Chapter 12: Reading: A Lifelong Activity
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
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- F
- G
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- P
- Q
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- About the Author
- Copyright
