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Why does improving your reading skills improve your day-to-day work?
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Because it enables you to use work-related reading time more effectively (e.g. reading Air Force instructions, operating instructions, plans, technical orders, promotion study guides, etc.).
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Reading is the foundation of your study skills. Reading at a fixed speed is one barrier to efficient and effective reading. List the other four. (19)
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1) Vocalizing (saying words aloud or to yourself as you read); 2) reading one word at a time; 3) re-reading passages; and 40 stumbling over unknown words.
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Rather than reading at a fixed speed, how should you adjust your reading speed? (19)
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According to the text’s difficulty and your reason for reading. (Skim quickly for main ideas only, slow down for complex ideas, etc.)
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Name two ways to avoid vocalizing while reading. (19)
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1) read faster than you can speak by focusing on larger areas of print; and 2) think about key words, ideas or images so that you picture what is happening.
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One way to break the habit of reading words one at a time is to focus on columns or groups of words, letting your peripheral vision pick up the remaining words. (19)
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. Use your hand or another object as a pacing aid.
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Avoiding distractions to increase your concentration will help you avoid re-reading passages. Name another simple way to avoid this barrier of effective reading. (19)
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Cover material you’ve read with an index card.
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Improving your _____ will keep you from stumbling over unknown words, help you read faster and improve your comprehension. (19)
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Vocabulary.
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SQR3 is useful research reading method. What does SQR3 stand for? (19)
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Survey, Question, Read, recall and Review.
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What do you focus on during the first step in the SQR3 method (survey)? (19-20)
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The main ideas and identifying sections that you need to read more carefully.
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During the second step of SQR3 (question), what should you ask yourself first? (20)
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What you already know about the topic. (Then compose questions you want to answer.)
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