Chris directs her teacher's expertise to struggling students and other interested readers; even so, beginning and seasoned writers can gain from timely reminders and pointers illustrating how to improve concentration and comprehension. The author advises: "Good readers ask literal questions (of text, bn) to clarify meaning. When these questions don't get answered, it is an indication that the reader needs more background knowledge or is not focused on the text." The author proceeds to establish rules and approaches to remedy poor reading skills and to redirect those with less than adequate attention focus. According to reports, present classroom reading skills are below par for most grade levels and require remedial teaching in today's technological climate.
We paraphrase one important observation: It is important to stop and think about what you have already read. Most students are prone to ignore this strategy. Yet, this is one great and useful fix-it maneuvers. Good readers ponder things they have read. They connect newly acquired knowledge with information already intercepted. Stopping and thinking gives readers time to test and absorb new information. The exercise allows readers to ask questions, visualize, and evaluate the important points raised. This advice is not more relevant than in biblical caballa studies. Most Bible students hurriedly read the difficult prose and do not intercept context nor remember facts already studied. Small wonder then, parishioners with forty or fifty years of repeated study cannot answer the simplest question. Example: who claims adherence to one of the following: amillennial, premillennial, or postmillennial? Why?
In a time when students need increasingly sophisticated reading skills, Tovani's book provides support for teachers who seek to incorporate comprehension skills into their daily lesson plans without sacrificing content coverage. Reading this book should greatly assist remedial students and those at the very beginning of their reading life.
We should add: bad or below-par reading habits are not confined to the classroom; mankind has long suffered from poor reading and comprehension habits. Evidentially, reading comprehension is poorest among those confused by charges and countercharges in the metaphysical debate. Here, mankind throws all caution to the wind and substitutes belief for knowledge: that is, he shuns the Edenic tree so enlightening to Adam and Eve and now available to all. But since the advent of knowledge, would it not seem apropos to partake of that fruit once forbidden but now open to all?
In this regard, we address knowledge as it might emit from a proper evaluation of ancient usage and not the use so commonly evolved. Who would have thought 'cool' to mean other than a degree of temperature somewhere between hot and cold? Thus, we learn what was once an accepted and limited meaning can change in a mere lifetime. Therefore, we are well-advised to exercise caution when perusing ancient text.
Accepted definitions in today's dictionary are markedly different from the dialectal limitation extant at the millennial change from B.C to A.D. Example: Gentile then and gentile today defines very differently. Millenniums then and millenniums today are far apart in quantitative measure. Biblical grace then and biblical grace now are miles apart in applicative concept. Ten Covenant Ages then and today's a-covenant age is without comparison. These are only a few examples of tradition's poor reading skills and contextual grasp. Our culture cannot seem to hold one interpretative fact long enough to develop another. Watch for more error notations marking mankind's failure to 'Stop And Think About What You Have Already Read.' We owe ourselves to be informed, to cultivate comprehension, to separate the wheat from the chaff in today's information barrage, and to keep a weary eye on political, commercial, and religion enducements!
Advanced studies on comprehension of cabbala intent are available for those with the need to know.
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