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Hola, everyone! Hope the GED studying is going well. Here’s a comment from Sunflower on one of my blog posts, and I wanted to write some about it:
when I see a paragraph like this I get scared I feel like its to many words on the page can anyone give me suggestion on reading passage [...]

I got a really good question about studying for the GED… If reading is hard for you, how do you study, when so much of studying is reading?!?! Well, there are some things that can help you read better and understand more.

For the GED, it’s important not just to take practice questions, but to think about how to answer GED questions. That’s why I’m taking some GED practice questions in reading from this site: http://www.studyguidezone.com/ged_reading.htm, and explaining how I thought them through to come up with the answers.

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.

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….

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.

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 [...]

I used to think that, to read something, you’d just read it. But I found out that to remember something you read, you have to do something to fix it in your mind, so you don’t forget. I figured this out after studying and studying and then not remembering anything I’d read.
Also, sometimes I’d read [...]

Well, I looked at that blackberry cobbler recipe at http://thepioneerwomancooks.com/2007/08/the_great_cobbl-2.html. I think it helped a lot to use the KWL reading strategy… that is, first think about what I Know, then think about what I Want to know, and then after reading, think about what I Learned. Did you look at that article? The recipe [...]

I guess the hardest thing on the GED for me is reading, cuz English isn’t my first language. And reading’s not just on the reading section. The whole science and social studies parts make you do a lot of reading. So studying reading is like a 3-for-1 deal to get a higher GED score.
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