Visual Purposes

This picture helps you by explaining how to make a good password. It shows you an example and the steps to actually create the password. It uses a combination of both words and pictures, helping me comprehend exactly how to make a good password easily.

Aiding Understanding

Identifying author's purpose and point of view is a great way to aid comprehension. Sure, they don't sound very important or significant, but they actually are!

Author's purpose helps by telling you what kind of information you are going to be reading. For example, fiction is usually written to entertain, so your probably not going to read one if you need to research on an animal.

Point of view helps you by informing you who's telling you the story. First-person could be a biography or fiction, while second-person could be something informational, while third-person would most likely be fiction.

Article Choice

I chose the article I read because I wished to find a way to keep myself safe from hackers. I've never had any of my accounts hacked before but I know and have heard of people who have. Finding you can't enter your account is never a pretty moment.

I hoped that it would give me examples of how to make my password strong and what a hacker's methods are on hacking an account, giving ways to evade this.

Notes: TM

Here is a chart I used while I read to help me comprehend the text of an article better:

Reading Process

Here is a checklist of things you can do to increase your reading comprehension big-time:

Before Reading
During Reading
After Reading

• Get into your alpha zone.
• Scan the text you are about to read.
• Create a KPL chart and complete the 'K' and 'P' column.
• Get into your soft-focus or tri-focus.
• Create a Notes: TM or a Mind Map.
• Complete the 'L' column of your KPL chart.
• Write a gist statement.

Why Is Tihs Raedbale?

Some research at Cambridge University concludes that the human mind isn't picky about the order of letters in a word as long as all letters are present and that the first and last letters are where they're supposed to be. Why? The human mind does not recognize each letter in a word, but the entire word itself.

This research also concludes something else that can help your reading comprehension. If your mind comprehends the entire word itself, and not the letters, it can also be concluded that reading slowly decreases comprehension. If you tend to linger on every single letter, slowing down your reading rate, it will be harder for you to understand a piece of text. If you speed through the words, it will be easier for you understand the entire sentence. For your brain, letters don't form a sentence--words do. Reading is one skill where taking your time isn't always good.

Knowing this, there are many other strategies that can help you improve your reading, especially if your struggling. Things such as how to read faster; maps for pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading; and elements of reading such as author's purpose.