reading skills
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Sentences
Although a
sentence may give a great deal of information, it usually offers
one key idea. Readers must be able to find key ideas in order to
understand sentence meanings clearly.
Here is how to find key ideas
in sentences:
1. Ask who
or what the sentence is about.
2. Ask what
the person or object is doing or what is happening to the person or
object.
3. Learn to
separate minor details from the main idea. Many words in sentences
describe things about the subject of the sentence and merely add
details around it. If you ask when, what kind,
where or why, you will find details. As a result, it is
easier to see the key idea. Here is one example from Passage
A:
On one
occasion a fight broke out at a beach party, with everyone punching
and shoving. (Para. 9)
Key idea: A
fight broke out.
You see that the key idea of
this sentence is: "a fight broke out", as this tells us about what
and what is happening. All the other information is about where,
when and in what way the fight broke out.
Of course, you cannot always
easily decide which details are simply descriptive and which add
much to the key idea. However, the starting point for determining
the key idea in a sentence is finding who or what the sentence is
about and what the person or object is doing.
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The particular reading skill introduced for this
unit is reading for the key ideas in sentences. We are reading for
information and the ability to find out the key ideas of sentences
is of great importance to us.
To find out the key idea of a
sentence, we have to remember the three important points mentioned
in your textbook:
1. Ask
who or what
the sentence is about.
2. Ask what
the person or object is doing or what is happening to the person or
object.
3. Learn to
separate minor details from the main ideas. Many words in sentences
describe things about the subject of the sentence and merely add
details around it. If you focus on the key idea of a sentence only,
just ignore the details as they just help support the key idea but
not the key idea of the sentence.
Here, we would pick up some
sentences from Passage A to find out the key ideas of the
sentences.
1) He was severely crippled
and very short, and when we walked together, his hand on my arm for
balance, people would stare. (Para. 1, Passage
A)
Key idea: He was crippled.
2) It was difficult to
coordinate our steps — his halting, mine impatient — and because of
that, we didn't say much as we went along. (Para. 2, Passage A)
Key idea: It was difficult to coordinate
our steps.
3) When I think of it now, I
am amazed at how much courage it must have taken for a grown man to
subject himself to such shame and stress. (Para. 5, Passage A)
Key idea: I am amazed at his
courage.
In finding
out the key ideas for sentences, it is of primary importance to
separate the key ideas from the details which would tell us about
when, what kind, where. These are
important only in the sense of supporting the key idea, but they
are not the key idea of a sentence.
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