PRPCOM1: CRITICAL READING SKILLS

1. How do you read critically?

In order to effectively analyze problems and become academically well-educated as college
students, it is important for us to read extensively, particularly when we need to prepare for impending
tests, quizzes, and recitations. We've found that reading quietly while pointing our fingers to the words
in a text is one of the best ways for us to develop our critical reading skill or abilities as it helps us learn
from written material. So as to understand the overall context or primary theme of the book, we
attentively read the words slowly and kept our attention while doing so because I occasionally lose focus
while reading. I also agree, ask myself questions, and perform emotions such as nodding and concurring
as I read the text, which can help me memorize and read critically. As a result, after reading, we compile
a list of significant points, synthesize concepts, draw conclusions, and assess what the author meant for
us to comprehend.

2. What challenges do you encounter as a reader?

Reading difficulties/ Challenges we encounter as a reader:
CAUSED BY TECHNICAL ERRORS
● Complexity of the text
- Some words or sentences are difficult to understand because of improperly
structured sentences or grammatical errors. But one main problem of confusion
in the meanings of words or sentences is because of the words with multiple
meanings which are commonly called “polysemous”.
● inability to connect ideas in a passage.
- Because of confusion about the meanings of words and sentences, we tend to
have a hard time connecting the ideas or points of an essay or passage.
● omission of, or glossing over detail.
- Sometimes, there are topics that have failed to be glossed over or given more
details about it. That is why sometimes it is hard for us readers to understand
and comprehend the idea or point of that certain topic.
● difficulty distinguishing significant information from minor details.
- Some significant information is put in minor details which makes it hard to notice
which is why us readers sometimes fail to distinguish and understand all the
information given in the text.

3. What strategies do you employ in comprehending content materials?

 Repeating key terms from the reading material out loud made them more likely to help us to
comprehend and remember concepts. While also to write it again on a blank piece of bond paper, We
organize the ideas we have gathered through diagrams such as venn diagram or through a concept
board; furthermore, we assess and engage in a question-and-answer session with ourselves, summarize,
repeat all the concepts we have to remember for the last strategy as well. Additionally, we occasionally
employ the Pomodoro technique, which lets our brain take in all the knowledge by pausing every 25
minutes and taking a break for 5 minutes. By doing this, our brain can comprehend and recall concepts
without being overloaded with information. As a result, we can learn from what we read as a student.