hello my name is Emma and in today's
video I am going to teach you how to be
a better reader so I want you to think
about your life are there any things
that are very difficult for you to read
maybe you have to read something in
English and you really don't understand
what's happening in the story or maybe
you're in university and you're taking a
very hard course and you can't read the
textbook because it's really difficult
and you don't know what's happening well
if you're having difficulty reading or
even if you just want to remember what
you read more and be a better study err
this video is for you so first let's
look at some things students might be
reading that might be causing
difficulties some students in their
universities they have to read textbooks
if you go to university or college or
also high school you have to do a lot of
reading and you have to do a lot of
complicated reading especially for
Sciences maths history so this is a very
good method I'm going to teach you how
to read these books better newspapers
sometimes you'll be reading the
newspaper and it's difficult especially
in another language so if you're reading
a newspaper and you know you want to be
better at reading it this videos for you
internet sources there's a lot of great
things on the internet to read and so
this will also help you if you like
reading things from the internet
magazine journals for anyone who's a
professional whether you're a doctor a
nurse a historian or if you're in
university or college a lot of the times
you have to read something called a
journal which is something for
professionals to read about their fields
so it's usually modern research these
things can be very difficult to read so
if you're reading this this is a great
technique for you if you're doing the
TOEFL or I else although I wouldn't
recommend using this technique on the
actual exam
I think it's great for your practice
tests and I'll tell you why a bit later
so you can use this one when you're
practicing for the TOEFL and IELTS and
finally if you're reading Shakespeare
when I read Shakespeare I had no idea
what was going on it was very confusing
all the old English I found it very
difficult to read there are also a lot
of books that can be very very hard to
read so these techniques will really
work for you for any of these situations
and many more so before I teach you
about the KWL technique I just want you
to think about reading for a second okay
a lot of people when they pick up a book
that's all they do
they open it up and they start reading
right away and then they close the book
and then a lot of the times they don't
really remember anything they read or
they don't understand what they read so
it's a lot of wasted time I like to
think of reading how I think of jogging
or running so if we look here I have the
word running or jogging if you like
exercise any type of exercise kind of
follows this format so reading is a lot
like running what a good reader does is
they have a warmup period so if you
think about running before you go
running you usually stretch and maybe
you'll do a little bit of movement to
get your heart pumped so you don't just
start running you do a warm-up the same
is true with readings the best reading
the best readers usually do a warm-up
for exercise people then usually run or
jog for a certain amount of time and
then afterwards they have what we call a
cool-down period so cooldown is usually
when somebody wants to slow their heart
rate so maybe they walk instead of run
maybe they do more stretches but they
don't just stop where they're doing they
slowly you know do slower activities
before they stop jogging or running so
if you think about reading like exercise
you should also have
a warm-up and then you read and then the
cooldown this is the meet this is the
main idea of the KWL method and I'm
going to teach you exactly how we can do
all of this when we read if you do this
the point of this method is it will
really really really help you to
understand what you're reading you're
going to understand a lot more you're
going to also remember a lot more and
for those of you in University and
college in high school you're going to
have to do less studying because if you
read something right the first time you
probably won't have to keep going back
again and again and again so using this
method at the beginning will save you a
lot of time so now let's look at an
example of how we can use the KWL method
okay so k WL what does that mean well
usually when I read something difficult
I make a chart like this and under K
this stands for no what do you already
know about what you're going to read so
this is like the warm-up of remember we
talked about running this would be like
you're stretching then we have W W
stands for what do you want to know what
do you want to learn so usually we write
a bunch of questions under here and this
is also a part of the warm-up this
really gets you thinking about you know
it makes me pay attention more to what
you're reading and finally L stands for
learned this is like the cool down in
this area you are going to write what
did you learn from what you just read
okay this is going to really help you
with your memory especially what are
some interesting things you learned
sometimes L is based off of what you
wanted to know maybe you had a question
here and then you can write you know the
answer to your question if you found it
so anything interesting you learned me
right here okay
so let's do an example of this method so
I have a book I've been reading I don't
know if you can see that it's the Albert
Einstein now I'm not really strong in
science but I'm really really interested
in physics and math but again for me
it's a little bit difficult to read
about physics because I don't really
have a strong background in it so when I
was reading this book and I'm not
finished yet
but as I'm reading it I'm actually doing
the KWL method so I want to use this
book as an example on how we can use
this method so first I wrote know and I
thought about okay what do I know about
Einstein so I did this before I read the
book so what do I know about Einstein
well I know something e equals MC
squared
I know that has to do with Einstein I
don't actually know what it means but I
always hear Einstein e equals MC squared
so I'd write that under No I know
Einstein has crazy hair okay that's one
thing I know about him I know he's
considered a genius I think he was
German he's a scientist and I heard that
he used to write the most romantic love
letters which is strange when you think
about Einstein but I heard he was very
romantic so these are the things I
already know about Einstein so now I can
think about some questions what do I
want to know about Einstein before I
read the book what do I want to know
well I know e equals MC squared but what
does that mean how do we use that I have
no idea what it really means so I'm
going to write this as want to know um I
want to know how did he discover it was
he in his lab doing an experiment and
found out e equals MC square or was he
on a beach and suddenly he just thought
about it I'm really interested in how do
you you know think about these things
how did he find out about e equals
mc-squared how is this theory used what
is it use for do we build things with it
is it used for you know what kind of
science was it used in how do we use e
equals MC squared
I also heard before that Einstein failed
math in high school I think somebody
told me that in high school I don't know
if that's true or not
so I want to know did he really fail
math and I have a lot more questions so
I could go on and on and so I write
everything I want to know about the book
so then I sit and I read and I read and
I read and while I read anything that I
think is really interesting or something
that surprised me something that I
learned I write here so in the first
chapter I learned Einstein was married
multiple times he married and then
divorced and then married again
and he was he was really romantic I
learned he didn't actually fail high
school math and I learned he was born in
Germany but became a Swiss citizen and
so I keep writing everything I'd write
what equals mc-squared
means but I don't really have space on
the board and I don't want to you know
complicate this lesson so but this is a
very very good technique again when
you're reading anything including
textbooks newspapers magazines
biographies this is very very useful so
I really really encourage you to try the
k4 no W for want to know and L for learn
method I hope you come visit our website
at wwlp.com there you can actually do a
quiz to practice these ideas it's not on
Einstein don't worry but it's about
reading and how to be a better reader
so again this is useful because it will
help you remember more it will make
reading easier for you and you won't
have to read the text again and again
and again so it will save you time okay
I also hope you come visit our website
at wwlp.com because we have a lot of
other resources on reading there that
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