Read, Understand, and Remember! Improve your reading skills with the KWL Method

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Is it difficult for you to understand or remember what you read? In this video, I will teach you an easy method that will help you become better at reading difficult material such as textbooks and journal articles. It is known as the "KWL" reading method. You will also remember more of what you read by using this method. If you plan to study at an English school, college, or university, this method will really help you. You can also use this method to help you in the IELTS and TOEFL exams. Try the KWL method yourself and tell me how it works for you in the comments!

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Hello. My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you how to be a better reader. So I want you to think about your life. Are there any things that are very difficult for you to read? Maybe you have to read something in English and you really don't understand what's happening in the story. Or maybe you're in university and you're taking a very hard course and you can't read the textbook because it's really difficult and you don't know what's happening. Well, if you're having difficulty reading or even if you just want to remember what you read more and be a better studier, this video is for you.

So first let's look at some things students might be reading that might be causing difficulty. Some students in their universities they have to read textbooks. If you go to university or college, or also high school, you have to do a lot of reading and you have to do a lot of complicated reading, especially for sciences, maths, history. So, this is a very good method. I'm going to teach you how to read these books better. Newspapers. Sometimes you'll be reading the newspaper and it's difficult, especially in another language. So if you're reading a newspaper and, you know, you want to be better at reading it, this video is for you. Internet sources. There's a lot of great things on the internet to read, and so this will also help you if you look reading things from the internet. Magazines.

Journals, for anyone who's a professional, whether you're a doctor, a nurse, a historian, or if you're in university or college, a lot of the times you have to read something called a journal, which is something for professionals to read about their field. So it's usually modern research. These things can be very difficult to read, so if you're reading these, this is a great technique for you. If you're doing the TOEFL or IELTS. Although I wouldn't recommend using this technique on the actual exam, I think it's great for your practice tests and I'll tell you why a bit later. So you can use this when you're practicing for the TOEFL and IELTS. And finally, if you're reading Shakespeare. When I read Shakespeare I had no idea what was going on. It was very confusing, all of the old English. I found it very difficult to read. There are also a lot of books that can be very, very hard to read. So these techniques will really work for you for any of these situations and many more.

So before I teach you about the KWL technique, I just want you to think about reading for a second. Okay? A lot of people when they pick up a book, that's all they do. They open it up and they start reading right away, and then they close the book and then a lot of the times they don't really remember anything they read or they don't understand what they read. So it's a lot of wasted time. I like to think of reading how I think of jogging or running. So if we look here, I have the word "running" or "jogging". If you like exercise, any type of exercise kind of follows this format. So, reading is a lot like running. What a good reader does is they have a warm up period. So if you think about running, before you go running you usually stretch. Maybe you'll do a little bit of movement to get your heart pumped. So you don't just start running. You do a warm up. The same is true with reading. The best reading... The best readers usually do a warm up.

For exercise, people then usually run or jog for a certain amount of time, and then afterwards they have what we call a cooldown period. So, "cooldown" is usually when somebody wants to slow their heartrate, so maybe they walk instead of run, maybe they do more stretches, but they don't just stop what they're doing. They slowly, you know, do slower activities before they stop jogging or running. So if you think about reading like exercise, you should also have a warm up, and then you read, and then the cooldown. This is the meat. This is the main idea of the KWL method, and I'm going to teach you exactly how we can do all of this when we read.
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Emma, Please know that your service has reached to Afghanistan, a country fully devastated by war and conflict. I can't tell you how much i appreciated your lessons and you offer them free of cost which is something i want the world to know to appreciate. You have a very generous heart. I have been following your lectures for IELTS but today i had this inner drive to some how try to appreciate your existence in this world. You are an angel of peace and knowledge. God bless.

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I can’t believe I’m here, actually caring to improve my skills. I thought I was paying attention to how my skills are but I’m actually not. I’m going to try my absolute best to get straight A’s and improve my skills. Thank you for the information!

mundanemonday
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Reading a book per week is my advice. Concentrate on areas you're interested in and on books that will help you. Reading books beats every other form of learning.

stunninglad
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This was very helpful but SOOOO long winded. I fast forwarded. Information starts at 5:23.

shadeenah
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1. Contextualize what you already know about the subject
2. Write down what you hope to learn from reading the material
3. Write down what you learned from step 2 and anything else interesting that stood out

CC-bmwb
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Kwl
1-Know
2-want to know
3-learned
What did you learn.

mokuho
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Why don't all English speakers speak like you? I understand every word, as if I were reading your voice, so clear, so incredible.

miganma
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Oh my gosh! I never know this and I'm old now (well, mid-30's) and how I wished I knew this strategy when I was in college. It's not too late tho. We all can still learn no matter what age and I'll apply this strategy as I read on. Thanks, Emma!

malloryjames
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Thank you Emma, it's pretty obvious that teaching is your calling, we can see in your videos the way you enjoy yourself while teaching, you deliver good vibra.

MrPicolina
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I love the way you speak! So flawless! Very clear, eloquent, no accent. Perfection!

darisan
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Thank you so much Emma for your videos. You are a great communicator and an excellent teacher. Thanks to his classes I begin to understand the English of the native speakers.

joseramonmoncasicebollero
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I wish there was an option for giving more than one like to this video! You've done a great job in packaging the complex science of learning into a very simple yet effective strategy.

royalmeredith
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Wish I knew this method 10 years ago I would have read more books but its never too late to start

kevinbroadwater
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I love how to explain with passion and not making it too complicated. Thank you!

blairBronte
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I'm struggling reading and remembering what I just read. I read a whole paragraph perfect and don't even know what I just read... I feel alot more comfortable and understands 10× better when someone else reads it nout loud and I listen

abrahamcontreras
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Thank you Emma for teaching us.You are a great teacher.

joseph.ant_xx
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Emma, thank you so much for this lesson. I practice KWL method even with my children aged just 6.

hoeezwm
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Thanks for the tip, this might just be what I need to lock information in my head. Thank you so much 😊
P.s. I gave you a thumbs up. I cant wait to try this out.

esotherwiseotherwise
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Emma you saved me. I listened to your video 2 days ago and learned about KWL. I'm doing much better just by including this method. Thank you.

racquelbrown
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Hey Emma. I started watching your videos to learn a bit of English, but I love your videos like this cause I always learn something more while Practicing to listen English. I love your method of teaching. Thanks so much.

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