Chrizza May Sabarre Meth5

Mrs. Brady

1. Is reading a wonderful human activity?

 Reading is a mind stimulant. Reading helps exercise your brain, to some effect.
Reading words you don't understand, or looking them up, or just thinking about
them will make more connections in your brain. The more connections you have
in your brain, the more intellectually advanced you will be.

2. Is physical seeing much like photographic/camera picture-taking?

 Not really, though you can train yourself to see, and visualize scenes. Starting
with the basics; the brain is the most powerful image processor known. How
many times have you seen snapshots that just didn't capture what you thought
you could see at the time. Whether it's you concentrating on a distant image, or
objects that due to their irrelevance in the scene you just didn't notice. When you
take the shot it just doesn't look the same, by default the camera gives everything
in the scene the same priority, so it's up to you the photographer to focus (as in
emphasize) on the subject you are interested in. 
Here's a good one for you too. Stand about 10 foot away from a brick wall.
Looking straight ahead at the brick wall, use you peripheral vision (you don't
move your eyes) to examine wall. Pay special attention to long straight lines,
such as where the wall meets the floor. Keeping your eyes fixed on the centre of
the wall but paying attention to the join of wall meeting floor, trace it from one end
to the other. Notice anything odd? You ought to, it's not the straight line that your
brain tells you it should be, in your peripheral vision it will curve. You know it's a
straight line, your brain tells you it's a straight line, but the view from your
peripheral vision is a curve, not dissimilar to a fish-eye lens. If you think about
this, it has to be, using our peripheral vision we have a field of view in excess of
165 degrees to the sides!

3. What causes eye strain?

 Eyestrain is a common condition that occurs when your eyes get tired from
intense use, such staring at computer screens and other digital devices. I love
reading novels at night until dawn, but since I’m reading through my devices
sometimes my eyes feel tired and sore. There are times that even my neck and
shoulder would feel sore, my vision would start to blur and my head would ache
and it will last until I woke up after taking a rest. Sometimes I convince myself
that I should stop but in the end I can’t, especially when I’m too hooked up with
 the story that I am reading. I’ll forget the time, I’ll ignore the fact that I need to
rest, because just like games and social media, reading can also be addictive.

There are useful aids to reading comprehension. Make a brief presentation of these tools (each
group/individual maybe assigned any one set of reading tools out of the 4 numbers) These
reading comprehension are:

1. Books, titles, unit openers, headings, sub-heading.

The books are "a massive, distributed archive of the history of reading, hidden in plain sight in
the circulating collections," the site argues. "Marginalia, inscriptions, photos, original
manuscripts, letters, drawings, and many other unique pieces of historical data can be found in
individual copies. But books contain not only records but also the emotions and experiences of
the author.
Needless to say, book titles are important! Like the old saying--don't judge a book by its cover--
judging a book by its title is just as tempting. A book title speaks to its content in myriad ways.
Like the book cover, a title can sometimes convey a straightforward fact. Other times, the title
might have layered meaning that becomes evident only after you read the novel and
comprehend its narrative. Based on its cover, what would you think of John Green's The Fault
in Our Stars without knowing anything about its plot?
A unit opener is the Open Court Reading name for what is commonly known as an anticipatory
set. An effective unit opener should: Engage students and raise interest in the coming unit.
Headings and subheadings organize content to guide readers. A heading or subheading
appears at the beginning of a page or section and briefly describes the content that follows.

2. Advance organizers, logos, teaser

An advance organizer helps teachers present information so that students will better
understand and remember it. It can be defined as a tool used to introduce the lesson
topic and illustrate the relationship between what the students are about to learn and the
information they have already learned.

Logos serve to represent a given organization or company through a visual image that
can be easily understood and recognized. A logo generally involves symbols, stylized
text or both.

A book teaser is a promotional banner or poster for a book. It is an important tool to

market a book on social media, creating excitement and a readership before a book is
released. Book teasers say what book covers can't. The different format allows for
greater creativity with words and images.
3. Italics, bold, underlining, highlighting

These tools help the readers recognize the important sentences easily.

4. Graphic organizers, charts, graphs, webs, map, timelines, diagrams.

Graphic organizers are visual representation of knowledge that structures information by

arranging important aspects of a concept or topic into a pattern using labels. Their main
function is to help present information in concise ways that highlight the organization and
relationships of concepts. Graphic organizers help students focus on what is important
because they highlight key concepts and vocabulary, and the relationships among them,
thus providing the tools for critical and creative thinking.

A timeline helps us choose what to include in our story. It also gives us a map to follow.
It is the big picture of a novel – a place where we get the chance to see the overarching
storylines and how they intersect. A timeline helps us to include only events that are
relevant to the plot in our novels.