Category: Reading

Over the past several years the rates of reading books jumped higher, along with the spreading of genres like the YA (young adult) and romance fiction. And with the growing interest in books and fiction, the more there are new stories to pick up from. However, there stands the neverending dispute: is reading print books…

The debate around whether the phonics approach or whole world approach should be used in the teaching of reading to young children is heavily polarized, with lots of research evidence for both sides of the argument. While the disagreement is still very prominent among scholars today, there are clear advantages and disadvantages that can be…

Introduction to Books and Movies Nowadays, there are various ways for people to spend their leisure time such as reading books and watching movies. One might ask, what does reading books even benefits us in sorts of way? How about watching movie? What I might be answering with is why not both? Before that lets…

Abstract This writing explains the symbols or signs in a short story, The Selfish Giant, written by Oscar Wilde, to explore the explicit meaning of the text. The writer chooses this short story, because the short story is used to examine students reading comprehension. This research applies Semiotic which discusses about symbols. The capabilities of…

That isn’t real reading my mother would always tell me when she would see me walking around with my headphones in listening to The Martian, Harry Potter, or The Name of the Wind. Audiobooks have become a daily addiction for me. Whether it is on my commute to school everyday or walking between classes I…

Nowadays, sure humans reads books or watch movies in their free time to relived stress, for diversion purposes. Books and movies have a few simililarities and contrasts. Certain human beings contend that books are an awful lot better than movies or vise versa. In this article, I will wholly talk about the similarities and differences…

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.  Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood. ‘Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can’t seem to live without. ‘ -Paddy Chayefsky. Stress, anxiety, and sadness have revolved humans for millennia and is still…

In a study by Shore, Ray, and Gooklasian (2012), they compared traditional vocabulary learning techniques with two strategies that are more constructive and interactive, drawing pictures and talking about the definitions of the terms and the impact on reading comprehension. Because understanding terms and definitions is a first step in learning science, we hypothesize that…

Reading and writing are both significant factors in an individuals life since it helps with day-to-day activities and most careers, and it also inhibits the mind into the form of imagination or creative thinking. Reading and writing help sort out much information about the many individuals living in this century. For one, reading and writing…