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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.

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….

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. I [...]

I came across the strangest book the other day! It made me so confused, but it also really made me think. Here’s the beginning of it. I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. [...]

What is “literature?” A lot of the time, when I think of literature, I think of old stories that I don’t have any real connection to. Things like, “Moby Dick” or “Pride and Prejudice.” It’s kind of hard to read those stories sometimes because I can’t relate to them at all. There’s a lot of [...]

Hola! I’m not so good at science in the first place, but sometimes science can be interesting. Like the theory of evolution. It says that we all evolved from the fish or something like that. I don’t know a lot about it, but I can’t imagine my great great great bisabuela having fins or gills. [...]