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... situations.– READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS –33See pages 9–11 to review these important active reading strategies.Careful, active reading will help you improve your overall readingcomprehensionskills ... exam is devoted to readingcomprehension skills; admissions offi-cers want to be sure you will be able to understand all of your reading assignments.TOEFL Exam Reading Comprehension: What ... will read in the college classroom. For example, you mightCHAPTER Reading Comprehension Skills Strong readingcomprehensionskills are essential for success on theTOEFL exam and throughout...
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... this lesson, you will sharpen your reading compre-hension skills by using all of these strategies at once.This will become more natural to you as your reading skills develop.Practice Passage ... simultaneously. This lesson gives you the oppor-tunity to combine these strategies and take your readingcomprehensionskills to the next level.LESSONPutting It AllTogetherLESSON SUMMARYThis lesson reviews ... look up as you work your way through this book. Many peo-ple feel insecure about their reading and writing skills because they have a limited vocabulary. The morewords you know, the easier it...
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... students’ readingcomprehension skills. The students must be active and practice as much as possible. To help students understand reading texts and at the same time develop their reading skills, ... Types of reading. We read different texts in different ways. According to the way of reading, we have aloud reading and silent reading. Depending on the purpose of reading, we can classify reading ... some suitable reading materials to students, as it is useful for them to form a good habit of reading. 1.2 Teaching reading comprehension 1.2.1 Relationship between reading and other skills. In...