WEBVTT 00:00.910 --> 00:01.390 OK. 00:01.400 --> 00:06.390 So let's start off by looking at the aisles reading basics part one. 00:06.710 --> 00:07.090 All right. 00:07.100 --> 00:12.250 And then try to kind of focus on what are some of the basic of child's reading for a lot of students 00:12.260 --> 00:16.220 they really think that dilutes reading part is probably the most difficult part. 00:16.610 --> 00:23.540 But I think once you really understand it once you really really understand Isle's reading based on 00:23.540 --> 00:29.510 our strategy strategies and techniques that we teach are really really believe that you're going to 00:29.510 --> 00:37.430 find it to be of equal difficulty to the other sections of the test. 00:37.550 --> 00:42.300 But let's go over some of the basics for Isle's listening. 00:42.490 --> 00:43.320 OK. 00:43.710 --> 00:45.410 I'm sorry I was reading. 00:45.830 --> 00:46.150 All right. 00:46.150 --> 00:54.830 So reading comprehension as you know it really comes down to understanding some of the basics and those 00:54.830 --> 00:56.920 involve really understanding. 00:56.920 --> 00:59.320 You have three reading passages you have to do. 00:59.600 --> 01:04.040 You have 13 to 14 questions for each reading passage. 01:04.040 --> 01:04.750 There are. 01:05.060 --> 01:10.220 There really are only two basic types of questions that you have to deal with for reading comprehension 01:11.380 --> 01:15.120 is really almost all multiple choice or fill in the blank. 01:15.170 --> 01:20.120 There are just different variations of a field of in question and there are different variations of 01:20.120 --> 01:22.230 a multiple choice question. 01:22.790 --> 01:24.740 And reading comprehension. 01:24.740 --> 01:29.990 Most of the time he gets more progressed more or gets progressively more difficult meaning that the 01:29.990 --> 01:37.490 reading past the first reading passage is going to be something that you can manage with not with ease 01:37.930 --> 01:40.910 but it's a basic level. 01:40.910 --> 01:44.140 And then you have reading passage to which is more which is more difficult. 01:44.240 --> 01:46.250 In reading past history is actually more difficult. 01:46.250 --> 01:53.170 Also the question types don't change right you still how you have filled the blank questions of reading 01:53.180 --> 01:57.800 passage one you have filled the blank questions read the passage passage three. 01:58.070 --> 02:03.530 What makes it more difficult is with each reading passage the level of English that you have to be able 02:03.530 --> 02:09.920 to understand and comprehend and digest is more difficult and more complicated is very much like the 02:09.920 --> 02:14.130 listening section of the child's exam where the listening section. 02:14.360 --> 02:16.460 It gets more difficult as you go along. 02:16.580 --> 02:18.110 All right. 02:18.600 --> 02:22.460 So you know we went over his terms to the basics. 02:22.460 --> 02:24.400 You have a total of 60 Minutes. 02:24.510 --> 02:28.080 So that means you only have 20 minutes to do one passage. 02:28.110 --> 02:34.780 A lot of students don't understand 20 minutes is a short amount of time and for reading. 02:35.010 --> 02:39.870 There really is no time for you to read the passage and then answer the questions. 02:40.080 --> 02:43.890 You have to understand that you could actually start with the questions. 02:44.100 --> 02:49.920 You can start with the questions because the questions are going to tell you what information is important 02:49.920 --> 02:54.110 to stay for and locate within a reading passage. 02:54.270 --> 02:56.990 That's how students are able to finish in 20 minutes time. 02:57.330 --> 02:57.970 OK. 02:58.200 --> 03:03.040 And as you go through the video lectures with us you're going to learn how to do that. 03:04.820 --> 03:07.300 Next some of the keys to doing well. 03:07.550 --> 03:09.710 Definitely learning academic vocabulary. 03:09.710 --> 03:15.110 I can't I can't say enough how important it is that you learn vocabulary. 03:15.740 --> 03:22.880 Really you have to some students at some students come to me come to me sometimes and they say well 03:22.880 --> 03:25.610 what if I don't know vocabulary What am I supposed to do. 03:25.670 --> 03:28.540 How can I still do do very well on the exam. 03:28.820 --> 03:35.920 You can you care OK if you're not going to be able to do that you're not going to be. 03:35.920 --> 03:38.040 You're not going to be able to do very well. 03:38.770 --> 03:40.900 You know that's like asking. 03:41.110 --> 03:47.410 That's like somebody who doesn't have Leics ask how can he run and run in the 100 meter dash. 03:47.560 --> 03:49.830 You know you can't you can't run. 03:49.840 --> 03:50.690 You don't have any. 03:50.830 --> 03:54.220 You know so you need you need vocabulary. 03:54.220 --> 03:54.610 All right. 03:54.620 --> 03:57.970 And next you have to learn how to scan OK. 03:58.120 --> 04:00.320 You have to learn how to I'll scan what I see. 04:00.350 --> 04:06.730 Can I say that because very often what you have to be able to do is understand the key words in a question 04:07.360 --> 04:11.420 and then be able to scan for synonyms of those key words in the reading passage. 04:11.500 --> 04:14.850 So you know what's the right sentence to read. 04:14.850 --> 04:15.150 All right. 04:15.160 --> 04:21.520 I'm going to give you a little bit of a breakdown and explanation of test design of test of how the 04:21.730 --> 04:29.400 test design in terms of the exam for the vast majority of the vast majority of the time what they're 04:29.410 --> 04:38.380 doing is when when a person creates the test what they're doing is they are looking at a sentence in 04:38.380 --> 04:44.770 a paragraph and they have from that sentence in a paragraph they create a question OK. 04:45.040 --> 04:50.410 And so when they create the question then they use synonym language they don't use the exact language 04:50.410 --> 04:56.170 just in the passage and also within their sentence very often is where the answers are located. 04:56.170 --> 05:01.510 Sometimes what they do is they'll take two sentences from the passage two sentences from a paragraph 05:01.510 --> 05:07.510 in the passage and then when they make a question they combine those two sentences into a question. 05:07.920 --> 05:15.190 And so if you're able to look at look at the key words in the question and then go scan and locate a 05:15.190 --> 05:22.000 sentence or two sentences from where the question was made you can always find the answer right there. 05:22.570 --> 05:28.060 So in terms of the terms of the aisles example that's a very big key to doing well. 05:28.060 --> 05:33.490 Time management is very important most students don't finish because they read and they read and they 05:33.490 --> 05:36.020 read and they read they read the whole paragraph. 05:36.370 --> 05:42.850 The answer is always coming from one or two sentences maximum and probably I would say 75 percent of 05:42.850 --> 05:45.790 the time is coming from one sentence. 05:46.310 --> 05:47.650 OK. 05:47.770 --> 05:49.680 And a question of strategy. 05:49.900 --> 05:53.370 A lot of students is just you know do the exam. 05:53.380 --> 05:55.310 They have no idea of strategy. 05:55.450 --> 05:57.240 And that's why they waste so much time. 05:57.280 --> 05:59.810 That's why they waste so much time. 05:59.860 --> 06:02.890 Some other things that are really important. 06:02.890 --> 06:06.540 You don't have to do the questions in order for one to 40. 06:06.550 --> 06:12.070 Some students just started number one and go try to go all within number 40 some question types are 06:12.100 --> 06:14.000 easier than others. 06:14.000 --> 06:14.450 All right. 06:14.470 --> 06:19.870 And you want to maybe start and do those first because your overall goal is to try to get as much right 06:19.870 --> 06:21.590 as possible. 06:21.670 --> 06:25.870 This is what get your general reading looks like four of the four you're reading. 06:26.020 --> 06:27.290 Reading scores you need. 06:27.310 --> 06:30.060 You go down here for most of you that are doing academic. 06:30.370 --> 06:35.360 If you want to get a 7 like a bad score of seven that means you can only get 30. 06:35.380 --> 06:37.450 You can only get 10 wrong. 06:37.780 --> 06:40.480 You have to get 30 or 40 correct. 06:40.480 --> 06:47.290 That means on average on the average reading passage you're not getting more than three wrong three 06:47.290 --> 06:50.110 wrong three wrong three wrong that's nine wrong. 06:50.110 --> 06:52.910 That's how you end up with getting a 7. 06:53.230 --> 06:53.910 OK. 06:54.460 --> 06:55.920 That's how you get to seven. 06:56.290 --> 07:02.740 Some students try to just guess their way gets their way through no real way to do that. 07:02.890 --> 07:09.550 You have to be able to have good academic and understand the proper strategy. 07:09.570 --> 07:10.210 All right. 07:10.320 --> 07:13.230 Reading is really a test of two things. 07:13.230 --> 07:17.590 That's all can you locate the part of the text that has the answer. 07:17.660 --> 07:20.050 Do you comprehend that part of the text. 07:20.450 --> 07:24.450 You have to be able to find the information and understand the information. 07:24.620 --> 07:27.930 And they're doing that over and over and over again. 07:28.280 --> 07:35.030 Find the information understand the information find the information understand the information everybody 07:35.030 --> 07:41.670 knows everybody who teaches Isle's exam should know that they should understand that. 07:41.740 --> 07:48.400 However I have seen very few teachers that actually understand that maybe maybe I can count on one hand 07:49.120 --> 07:52.030 of the other teachers other than myself. 07:52.050 --> 07:57.240 They really understand that the aisles exam is about finding and understanding information. 07:57.490 --> 07:58.370 OK. 07:58.720 --> 08:00.020 And that's it. 08:00.040 --> 08:03.580 So that's why I say you have to be very good at scanning. 08:03.760 --> 08:08.770 So you could find the right information and then you have to have really good vocabulary so you can 08:08.770 --> 08:13.650 be able to understand very well. 08:13.650 --> 08:14.140 All right. 08:14.250 --> 08:17.200 So also this is where this. 08:17.250 --> 08:21.940 These are basics for reading this is our these are basics. 08:21.960 --> 08:22.940 Number one. 08:23.130 --> 08:28.130 And in the next lecture we're going to be going over a few more basics trials reading. 08:28.140 --> 08:30.850 So I look forward to teaching you. 08:30.880 --> 08:33.060 I think we're going to have a great success. 08:33.060 --> 08:34.110 I'll talk to you soon.