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¡Hola! How’s the GED studying? You know, I kind of always thought poetry was pointless, but now I’m looking at it for the GED test, and I like some of it. This poem we went over, kind of reminds me of my mom, how she’s always there for me, always solid, you know. I guess I want to be like that for my Roberto. I thought I’d think up a GED practice question for it. Read the rest of this entry »

I started out talking about metaphors for the GED reading section last time… (Prospero Año Nuevo, by the way…) Anyway, it led me into poetry. I know, it’s the hardest thing, right? But the GED reading test’s gonna have poetry on it. And sometimes I like poetry, you know. It’s a matter of figuring out what they’re trying to say… that’s what reading’s about, right? It’s what the GED is about. Read the rest of this entry »

How do you get the answer to a question out of a big, long text, without spending a lot of time reading every word? It’s called skimming and scanning. The short definition: running your eyes quickly over words to find information. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s something you need to know for GED reading… One thing that’s on the GED test and that confuses people when they’re reading (me, at least!) is what’s called a metaphor. Do you remember learning about them in high school? Metaphors are used in literature all the time. That’s when you say one thing, but you really mean another thing. Read the rest of this entry »

The GED means a lot of reading! You need to read passages about science and social science, plus the reading section. So it helps to be able to get the information you need fast. That’s where “skimming” and “scanning” come in. They’re both ways to get information when you’re reading. Read the rest of this entry »

Hola. I said I’d get back to you on how I used the SQ4R reading strategy to look at this article about the dust bowl: http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/dustbowl/dustbowl.html

Here’s what I did…. Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s the quote from one of the James Bond books that I started reading (Thunderball by Ian Fleming): Read the rest of this entry »

One of the things that seems real hard for me on the GED is that they always have long words that I don’t know. Since I grew up speaking Spanish, maybe my English vocabulary isn’t that good. That’s okay. I needed to figure out ways to deal with a strange word. If you’re just reading at home, you can have a dictionary, right? But not on the GED test. So what can you do? Read the rest of this entry »

Since I’ve been looking into reading, I’ve found lots of kinds of reading strategies to help you understand and remember. Good reading strategies don’t just help you read on the GED test… they also help you study! Here’s a great reading strategy for GED preparation, called SQ4R. Read the rest of this entry »

You know, sometimes I struggle with reading things… that makes it hard to do a lot of the GED test readings! I try to understand each word I don’t know, and then I get lost in the little details. Then the questions on the GED test ask what the main idea was, and what the main point was. And I can’t answer! How do I get the main idea, while I’m trying to figure out hard words and things? Read the rest of this entry »