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So let's start off by looking at the aisles reading basics part one.
All right.
And then try to kind of focus on what are some of the basic of child's reading for a lot of students
they really think that dilutes reading part is probably the most difficult part.
But I think once you really understand it once you really really understand Isle's reading based on
our strategy strategies and techniques that we teach are really really believe that you're going to
find it to be of equal difficulty to the other sections of the test.
But let's go over some of the basics for Isle's listening.
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I'm sorry I was reading.
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So reading comprehension as you know it really comes down to understanding some of the basics and those
involve really understanding.
You have three reading passages you have to do.
You have 13 to 14 questions for each reading passage.
There are.
There really are only two basic types of questions that you have to deal with for reading comprehension
is really almost all multiple choice or fill in the blank.
There are just different variations of a field of in question and there are different variations of
a multiple choice question.
And reading comprehension.
Most of the time he gets more progressed more or gets progressively more difficult meaning that the
reading past the first reading passage is going to be something that you can manage with not with ease
but it's a basic level.
And then you have reading passage to which is more which is more difficult.
In reading past history is actually more difficult.
Also the question types don't change right you still how you have filled the blank questions of reading
passage one you have filled the blank questions read the passage passage three.
What makes it more difficult is with each reading passage the level of English that you have to be able
to understand and comprehend and digest is more difficult and more complicated is very much like the
listening section of the child's exam where the listening section.
It gets more difficult as you go along.
All right.
So you know we went over his terms to the basics.
You have a total of 60 Minutes.
So that means you only have 20 minutes to do one passage.
A lot of students don't understand 20 minutes is a short amount of time and for reading.
There really is no time for you to read the passage and then answer the questions.
You have to understand that you could actually start with the questions.
You can start with the questions because the questions are going to tell you what information is important
to stay for and locate within a reading passage.
That's how students are able to finish in 20 minutes time.
OK.
And as you go through the video lectures with us you're going to learn how to do that.
Next some of the keys to doing well.
Definitely learning academic vocabulary.
I can't I can't say enough how important it is that you learn vocabulary.
Really you have to some students at some students come to me come to me sometimes and they say well
what if I don't know vocabulary What am I supposed to do.
How can I still do do very well on the exam.
You can you care OK if you're not going to be able to do that you're not going to be.
You're not going to be able to do very well.
You know that's like asking.
That's like somebody who doesn't have Leics ask how can he run and run in the 100 meter dash.
You know you can't you can't run.
You don't have any.
You know so you need you need vocabulary.
All right.
And next you have to learn how to scan OK.
You have to learn how to I'll scan what I see.
Can I say that because very often what you have to be able to do is understand the key words in a question
and then be able to scan for synonyms of those key words in the reading passage.
So you know what's the right sentence to read.
All right.
I'm going to give you a little bit of a breakdown and explanation of test design of test of how the
test design in terms of the exam for the vast majority of the vast majority of the time what they're
doing is when when a person creates the test what they're doing is they are looking at a sentence in
a paragraph and they have from that sentence in a paragraph they create a question OK.
And so when they create the question then they use synonym language they don't use the exact language
just in the passage and also within their sentence very often is where the answers are located.
Sometimes what they do is they'll take two sentences from the passage two sentences from a paragraph
in the passage and then when they make a question they combine those two sentences into a question.
And so if you're able to look at look at the key words in the question and then go scan and locate a
sentence or two sentences from where the question was made you can always find the answer right there.
So in terms of the terms of the aisles example that's a very big key to doing well.
Time management is very important most students don't finish because they read and they read and they
read and they read they read the whole paragraph.
The answer is always coming from one or two sentences maximum and probably I would say 75 percent of
the time is coming from one sentence.
OK.
And a question of strategy.
A lot of students is just you know do the exam.
They have no idea of strategy.
And that's why they waste so much time.
That's why they waste so much time.
Some other things that are really important.
You don't have to do the questions in order for one to 40.
Some students just started number one and go try to go all within number 40 some question types are
easier than others.
All right.
And you want to maybe start and do those first because your overall goal is to try to get as much right
as possible.
This is what get your general reading looks like four of the four you're reading.
Reading scores you need.
You go down here for most of you that are doing academic.
If you want to get a 7 like a bad score of seven that means you can only get 30.
You can only get 10 wrong.
You have to get 30 or 40 correct.
That means on average on the average reading passage you're not getting more than three wrong three
wrong three wrong three wrong that's nine wrong.
That's how you end up with getting a 7.
OK.
That's how you get to seven.
Some students try to just guess their way gets their way through no real way to do that.
You have to be able to have good academic and understand the proper strategy.
All right.
Reading is really a test of two things.
That's all can you locate the part of the text that has the answer.
Do you comprehend that part of the text.
You have to be able to find the information and understand the information.
And they're doing that over and over and over again.
Find the information understand the information find the information understand the information everybody
knows everybody who teaches Isle's exam should know that they should understand that.
However I have seen very few teachers that actually understand that maybe maybe I can count on one hand
of the other teachers other than myself.
They really understand that the aisles exam is about finding and understanding information.
OK.
And that's it.
So that's why I say you have to be very good at scanning.
So you could find the right information and then you have to have really good vocabulary so you can
be able to understand very well.
All right.
So also this is where this.
These are basics for reading this is our these are basics.
Number one.
And in the next lecture we're going to be going over a few more basics trials reading.
So I look forward to teaching you.
I think we're going to have a great success.
I'll talk to you soon.