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Online Interest Reading

Online Interest Reading
WIKI
High Interest Reading Will Improve Your Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Reading Speed

“How to Create A Reading Habit”

How can you Read for Pleasure with all the Reading Assignments in College?

Take at least 10-15 minutes a day to Read
1 or 2 Online Interest Articles

ONLINE INTEREST ARTICLE READING

(Expository or Informational Text)
To get started with online interest reading, write down 3 of your top passions or interests.
These could be people, places, books, authors, animals, holidays, sports, food, pets, hobbies, music, movies, etc..
Then search Google for one and read about it for 10-15 minutes.
Do this each day. Fun and easy! You may also enjoy searching wikipedia.com for information on just about anything or Amazon.com for book reviews.

Yes, you can read about your favorite movies, musicians, politicians, athletes, movie stars, etc. .
Just 10 minutes..(or so) and you are practicing reading fluency, speed, building comprehension, and building vocabulary. It is just that easy!

VOCABULARY BUILDING

Please share vocabulary words that are new to you on the wiki. You may define them or leave them to be defined by someone else.
While you are reading what you want to read is an optimum (best) time to add to your vocabulary.
When you WANT to know an unknown word and it is in context of your interest reading it is easiest to learn!

So, as you read an online article, highlight words or phrases (idioms) that you don’t know.
Try to figure them out from the words around them, or context. Look them up quickly as needed.
After reading come back to look the ones you want to remember and write them down in a notebook with their definitions.
Keep this “Running Dictionary” going as a great learning tool. You can add your words to share below under an online article you have chosen them from.
The lists provide “frontloading” to other students who want to understand the vocabulary before reading, another very good strategy.

Tools to help you with vocabulary development:
1. Download peetareader at oopsenglish.com and plug it into all of your online reading for instant definitions while reading
2. Read with dictionary.com and Idiomconnection.com minimized to get quick definitions for words and phrases
*The quizzes at Idiomconnection.com are great learning tools!
3. Read with your electronic dictionary.
Great sites to 10 minute ..(or more) read: Amazon.com (to search any book or author) http://movies.go.com/ Wikipedia.com (to look almost anything up)
Reader’s Digest: http://www.rd.com/

Student Generated Interests to look up Online:

Wiki

Here are some high- interest online topics generated by Soka students including places, people, professions, hobbies, and sites of specific articles.
They can serve as a starting point for your search for 10 minute read ideas.
Please add your own interests, favorite online articles and essays, sites, vocabulary learned and comments to the list.

Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy for Memory and Concentration:
http://wlnaturalhealth.com/aromatherapy-articles/aromatherapy-memory-concentration.htm
Bubble Tea
Carpenters (singers)
Chaplin
China Tea History: http://travelchinaguide.com/intro/cuisine-drink/tea/index.htm
The Cinderella Story
Dancing
Denmark
Disneyland
Disney Stories
Dr. Daisaku Ikeda
http://sgi-usa.org/thesgiusa/aboutsgi/ikeda.html
Drawing
Europe
Fairy tales

Flight Attendant
Frederick Douglass
Fukuoka
Global warming
http://library.thinkquest.org/J003411/causes.htm
Guitar
Harry Potter
Haruki Murakam
Health Issues
Allergies:

Distraction Tactic Wipes out Allergies:
www.newscientist.com

Sept 30, 2006 Obesity Kids Eat More in Groups:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/print?id=2872760

Healthy Sleep Tips:
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/site/
Himeji
History
Humor
In her Shoes
Ichiro Suzuki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro-Suzuki
Japan
http://www.japanfocus.org/products/topdf/2362
Kimono History
http://www.japanesekimono.com/kimono_history.htm
JK Rollings
Johnny Depp
Laguna Beach
Legally Blonde

The Lion King

Lord of the Rings
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Miyazaki: (Spirited Away)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
Monet
Movies
Music
Nagasaki
Nelson Mandela
New York
Not a Girl, Not yet a Woman
O’Henry
Osaka
Pets and Pet Therapy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/therapy_dog
http://www.petnet.com.au/power/benefits.html
Peace Studies
Peru
Paul Simon
Pirates of the Caribbean
Poetry
Tennis:
Wikipedia.com: search: Roger Federer
Sleep:
Why we’re not immune to losing sleep
www.newscientist.com
Stress management:
http://www.ivf.com/stress.html

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