文档介绍：Unit Three Active Reading
Lesson 7
What Is Active Reading
This unit introduces some techniques that can make an
appreciable difference in how well you read and how
much you remember. In fact, these techniques—
prereading, making connections and predictions, and
monitoring prehension—can make an
immediate, significant improvement in your reading
efficiency.
Research reveals that effective reading is not a single-
step process, but plex set of skills involving
activities before, during, and after reading. Here is a
partial list of some of those skills.
Before Reading:
1. determine the subject of the material
2. determine how the material anized
3. define your purpose of reading
4. decide what you need to remember from the
material
During Reading:
1. identify what is important
2. determine how key ideas are supported
3. identify patterns of thought
4. draw connections among ideas
5. anticipate what is e next
6. relate ideas to what you already know
During and After Reading:
1. identify the author’s purpose of writing
2. analyze the writer’s technique and language
3. evaluate the writer’petence or authority
4. ask critical questions
5. evaluate the nature and type of supporting
evidence
Practice of Reading Techniques
Activities before,during and after reading.
Determine what is meant by the title of the reading
selection “A Whole Nation and a People.”
2. Determine what sort of literature it is: essay, drama,
fiction story, or fragments of autobiography.
3. Anticipate what is e next after reading the
first five paragraphs.
4. Identify the author’s purpose of writing this passage.
Lesson 7
A Whole Nation and a People
Reading Selection A
CATALOGUE
Warm-up Activities
About the Author
Language Points
Keys
text
Warm-up Activities
The western countries have influence us greatly
in all aspects. What are the advantages and the
disadvantage of such influence?
2. Do you think all of us should try our best to
preserve our nation