Active reading and how you can do it
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This document discusses active reading and how to do it. Active reading involves focusing on details like an author's craft, narrative elements, dialogue patterns, and integrating actions with dialogue. It suggests examining how authors create chapter endings or unique speech patterns. Another way is discussing books with others, joining book clubs, or using readers' guides to take time understanding works and how they affect readers. Active reading combines pleasure with conscious study and learning.
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Perhaps there’s no single correct
way to read books, but how
beautiful it is to be able to savor
every word on the page and fully
experience the entire world that
those words create. Here comes
active reading, which reads
everything with eyes as well as an
ear for what makes the written
work fly. Let’s have a quick look at
how it can be done.
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For starters, there’s passive and
active reading: the former
consumes a novel or fiction as
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- 1. 6/18/2018 Active Reading And How You Can Do It - John Eilermann St Louis https://sites.google.com/site/johneilermannstlouisus/blog/active-reading-and-how-you-can-do-it 1/3 John Eilermann St Louis HOME ABOUT BLOG ACTIVE READING AND HOW YOU CAN DO IT GET YOUR KIDS INTO READING AND HELP THEM OPEN NEW WORLDS HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR CHILDREN TO GET INTO READING NOVELS? CONTACT SITEMAP SOCIAL LINKS TWITTER LINKEDIN PINTEREST FLICKR Blog > Active Reading And How You Can Do It posted May 31, 2018, 1:17 AM by John Eilermann St Louis [ updated May 31, 2018, 1:17 AM ] Perhaps there’s no single correct way to read books, but how beautiful it is to be able to savor every word on the page and fully experience the entire world that those words create. Here comes active reading, which reads everything with eyes as well as an ear for what makes the written work fly. Let’s have a quick look at how it can be done. Image source: Pixabay.com For starters, there’s passive and active reading: the former consumes a novel or fiction as Search this site
- 2. 6/18/2018 Active Reading And How You Can Do It - John Eilermann St Louis https://sites.google.com/site/johneilermannstlouisus/blog/active-reading-and-how-you-can-do-it 2/3 entertainment, perhaps going through it without much attention to detail. The latter, however, involves a good focus on the author’s craft and develops evaluation skills that can be applied to the literary work. There are different ways to do active reading. One is selecting a narrative element and examining how a story uses it. An active reader, for instance, may study how established authors create their chapter endings. Another area of focus is dialogue, a good point of analysis. Active reading can answer a number of questions: what are Character A’s speech mannerisms? What are the unique verbal patterns in this novel? How is the dialogue integrated into the scene – is it a transcript, or does it go hand in hand with actions? Another powerful way to practice active reading is radically simple: talk about the work. Discuss with a friend your thoughts, feelings, and actions about the book. Join a book club or reading class, or dig deeper into the readers’ guide, if it’s included in the book or publisher’s website. Active reading is all about slowing down, taking time to understand why and how certain works affect us this way, and what exactly is going on in the fictional or non- fictional work. It combines the pleasure of reading with its conscious study and learning.
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