Strategies to Improve Reading Ability for Students

This report discusses strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability. It covers techniques such as generating questions, reading aloud, promoting cooperative talk, and using context clues. These strategies can help students enhance their reading skills and engage with the material.

Habits for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
ASSESSMENT1..............................................................................................................................1
Three habits which are important for student success: ..............................................................1
Analyse additional habits that are need to students and also explains importance to them........3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Discuss strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability:..................................1
Suggestions that will help students improve the quality of their written project. .....................3
CONCLUSION: ..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Higher Education is study on tertiary education leading to award on academic degree. It
is a final stage of formal learning that takes place after completion of secondary schooling. It is
distributed at academics, colleges, universities, seminars and institutes of technology and also
from trade schools, vocational schools and other college that offers degree (Cairney, 2018). It
mainly includes research, teaching, exacting applied work and activities like social services of
universities. It is important for every nation to develop their company which solely depends on
quality of human resources in their enterprise. Student will get success when they apply many
habits in their day to day work. Some of them are as explained below.
ASSESSMENT1
Three habits which are important for student success:
There are many habits required for student to get success in their career as after
completion of higher education. Obsessed with self development, as when life starts to proceed
many types of circumstances is faced by individual like changing environment and new roles
required by person tom adopt it. Personal development plan helps to handle pressure which are
comes with continuous changes and challenges to cope up with well equipped in all areas of life.
It is a ongoing process of self improvement for student to get success in their life. It includes
setting objectives for themselves and put on plans to achieve those goals. In addition, by personal
or self development it improves individual's potential, talents, consciousness and capability to
realize dreams and create wealth for future. By self expansion, it enables student to have a
definite vision of future which provides clear vision to them that in few months what they wants
to achieve. With self improvement plan it not only helps individual to improve their weaknesses
but also helps to develop inner strength (Crovetto and et. al., 2018). This can be achieved by
taking time to focus on tend and using strength to being excellent from good. When a student
achieved specific goals, develop certain area in their life and gained another habit its naturally
feel confidence from inner body. It boost morale of individual to improve standard of their life.
Furthermore, personal development is closely associated to self awareness. It gives opportunity
to person to draw honest look at their life life which needs improvement. By this person analyse
about themselves and values, this leads to improvement in self awareness and fulfilment of
experience.
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The other habit in student success is, Set Goals, aim or target are very crucial for student
to get success in their life. Tracking and setting goals helps individual to learn about life habits
like planning, time management and organisation while also includes self awareness, building
communication habits and confidence. With help of suitable term, it becomes number one
priority for individual to look on success by making clear vision, mission to achieve setting
goals. Objectives and goals provide student to examine ability of themselves and progress they
want in their future. When clear goals are set, it reduces procrastination. When an individual set
clear goal that what they want to achieved there is less room of hesitation. This leads proper
planning and time management habits to attain objectives (Dollinger, Lodge and Coates, 2018).
When individual analyse that long term goals can be achieved by proper concentration of
mission, so this increases motivation in them. Setting goals examines a clear pathway to success
for student to focus on their working habits. This helps in preventing them from discouragement,
overwhelming or frustration in them. Setting smaller goals is also important because it helps
individual to keep track of progress that have made towards larger goal and helps to stay positive
about way from which life is progressing. In addition, student have ability to step next ahead
when one goal is achieved. When goal is set by anyone must be commit to paper. This provides a
blueprint that helps to achieve long term goals that helps them to remain focused and motivation.
In addition, other habit which is helpful in success of student is Great Self Discipline is
defined as having control on oneself. It gives self control overreactions and boosts an individual
inner strength. One of main element of self discipline is its potentiality to resign immediate
gratification and pleasure. It is most important habit an individual should possess. It offers
person power to make right decisions, achieve goals and despite temptations. Discipline may be
regarded as strongest attribute of successful people, which encourages student to stay focused on
attainment of goals. In addition, take initiative measures when there is difficult task and it allows
them to overcome obstacles or hurdles which propels them to not achieve new heights. With help
of self discipline, it allows person to organize their schedule and get things done rightly. It
shapes an individual to remain compatible in their work and to achieve success. By self
discipline it boosts a student's self esteem and work ethic simultaneously. In addition, it molds a
person to improved category of themselves (Hamann, Pilotti and Wilson, 2020). Furthermore,
when a student is self discipline, they nurtures his path with inner strength, confidence and self
esteem which leads to happiness and satisfaction of themselves.
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Analyse additional habits that are need to students and also explains importance to them.
There are many habits required by students to get success in their life are Stay Organised,
it helps individual to work faster without wasting time which increases productivity. By keeping
organised, it will save time for looking things and also get more time to make time to work on
important projects. By stay organised, student gain a sense of control and gain energy, calm from
their space. For success, student have to organised their workplace in quite good manner in
which they become motivated and work effectively and efficiently to achieve mission and goal
of them (Lett, 2020). Student can be organised when they use additional resources to achieve
assistance in work. In higher education, students must be involved with extra curricular activities
to stay organised for achieve advantage of all resources.
Another habit for student is Use of technology for their advantage, in today's scenario
students have access of internet with them, an unbelievable resource which offers huge amount
of information by one single click. They have access to wealth of information online which
includes instructional videos, practice problems and published texts. Individual who learn from
technology can create group of habits that help them all over their own future career. With
technology, cost of education is reduced, education becomes more accessible and flexible. As in
growing popularity of mobile learning and online degrees, this leads to removal of physical
boundaries and many executives use technology to supplement education to their employees.
Next habit student have to use for success is, Put integrity and honesty first, as famous
saying, Honesty is telling truth to other people, integrity is telling truth for self. Meaning of
integrity is feel whole that is complete person. So it defines as sense of togetherness and
completeness a person enjoy to live with honesty and integrity. Student in their life should have
goal to always be honest and trust worthy to their work and colleagues. It gives a sign of good
future leader and progress n their life (Pugatch and Wilson, 2018). Basic characteristics of
student to get succeed in their life are sound moral, basic honesty and ethical beliefs. It
encourage positive environment and encourage higher productivity to work with motivation.
With true integrity it leads to things done in right manner and never praise for any recognition.
Another habit student have to possessed as they have to Action Oriented, student which
have proper knowledge of working or learning capability are do their task in effective manner.
They are decision making person, they make determination for themselves for attainment of
goals. They take full responsibility of their actions for their failures and success. They never put
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blame on someone, they learn from their failures. In action oriented, students should have to
believe in their energy that must spent in present and planning for growth in future. Moreover,
students have to be risk taking, as they give many exams which results in unsuccessful but they
never leave their hopes (Torstveit and et. al., 2018). With taking a risk is mainly achieve goal
which leads to face fear of uncertainty with courage. So students should be risk taking and action
oriented people which results in improving chances of achieving future objectives.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from above analysis, as with higher education it leads to achieve award on
academic degree. For student having proper skills or habits as above discussed are, obsessed with
self development, great self discipline, stay organised, setting goals, action oriented, always be
honest and integrate. This leads to create positive attitude in students for attain success in future.
For success in life, it leads to achievement of setting goals or objectives. Setting smart goal plays
a significant importance for bright future. This can only be done by choose right path and
concentrate all energies in all direction.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Crovetto, M. and et. al., 2018. Effect of healthy and unhealthy habits on obesity: a multicentric
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conceptual model. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education. 28(2). pp.210-231.
Hamann, K., Pilotti, M.A. and Wilson, B.M., 2020. Students’ Self-Efficacy, Causal Attribution
Habits and Test Grades. Education Sciences. 10(9). p.231.
Lett, M., 2020. Higher education can depict health status and eating habits: North Dakota
nutrition.
Pugatch, T. and Wilson, N., 2018. Nudging study habits: A field experiment on peer tutoring in
higher education. Economics of Education Review. 62. pp.151-161.
Torstveit, and et. al., 2018. Participation in organized sports is associated with decreased
likelihood of unhealthy lifestyle habits in adolescents. Scandinavian journal of medicine
& science in sports. 28(11). pp.2384-2396.
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INTRODUCTION
Higher eduction refers to the eduction leading to award of an higher degree, it can lead to
many benefits, including prosperous career and financial security. In today's scenario, eduction
plays an more significant role in other aspects of life. Higher education can increase career
opportunities and improve overall quality of student life. The role of higher eduction is to
provide better job opportunities to students and provide them comfort lifestyle. This report
contains information about how a students can improve their reading ability so they can gain
benefits from it. Furthermore, this report also include information about how students can
improve quality of their written project(Suleman. 2018.).
ASSESSMENT 2
Discuss strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability:
Reading skills helps students to discover new things by enabling them to educate
themselves in any area of their student they are interested in and to do their own research and
thinking. It helps to develop mind and imagination and the creative side of student or individual.
below is information various strategies that student can use to improve their reading skills.
 Generate questions: A good strategy to teach all the students that they can pass through
all the chapters and passages so they can generate questions according to their interest.
These questions could be about what just happened or what will happen in future, doing
this can help the students to focus on main idea and increase the student engagement with
material. Thus, generating questions could help students to boost their interest in reading
and improver their reading skills( Succi. and Canovi. 2020.).
 Read Aloud and Monitor: This is very important strategy to improve reading skills.
There is evidence that read aloud is beneficial for students. This can push student to
deeper thought around big ideas. Thus, after reading aloud can support conversation in
class that help student to make critical connections.
 Promote cooperative talk: Having students stops periodically to turn and talk in order to
discuss what they just has been read can reveal any issue with understanding. This is use
full strategy that can used after a read aloud when all students have shared experience in
listening to a text. This is kind of cooperative learning, where students learn reading
strategies. It is one of the most important instructional tools.

 Attention to Text Structure: This is an excellent strategy that soon becomes nature is to
have struggling students read through all the headings and sub headings in any chapter
that they have been assigned. They also can look at the pictures, graphs or chart. This
information can help them to gain an overview of what they will be learning as they read
the chapter.
 Take notes and annotate texts: students should read with paper and pain in hand so they
can note down what they learn. They can take notes of thinking and predicting what they
understand, they can write down questions, they can create a list of vocabulary of all
highlighted words from the chapter along with all unfamiliar words. Notes allow students
to record information from a text without damaging the text(Williams. 2019).
 Use context clues: students needs to use hints that author provide in the book, students
may need to look at context clues, that is word or phrase directly before or after a word
they may not know. Thus reading clues could help students to better understand what
they are reading.
 Use Graphic organizer: These allow students to identify areas of focus and the main
idea in reading. Some students finds that graphic organizer like webs and concept maps
can gently enhance reading comprehension. Students can deepen their understanding of
the meaning of chapter they are reading. Thus, the of Graphic organizer could improve
the understanding of students(.Picatoste. Pérez-Ortiz. and Ruesga-Benito. 2018).
 Summarizing: As students read, they should be encourage to stop periodically stop their
reading and summarize what they just has been read. This could help them to remember
what they read and understand it. In creating summary students have to integrate the most
important idea and generalize it from text information. This practice of integrating and
generalizing in the creation of summary helps in making long passages more
understandable.
 Monitor Understanding: All the students must be aware of what and how they are
reading. They need to know hoe be aware of how they read, they need to know how
fluently and accurate they are reading a text. Furthermore, they also need to know how
they can determined their own understanding of materials.
Thus, with all these strategies a student can improve their reading skills. These could help them
to understand what they are reading and what they will read and learn in the future.
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TASK 2
Suggestions that will help students improve the quality of their written project.
Written skills equips students with communication and thinking skills, makes thinking
and learning visible and permanent. Writing fosters the ability of students to explain and refine
the ideas to others. There are various techniques that can help the students to improve their
written skills:
 Read Up: Regular reading is very important for students to improve their writing skills.
Reading regularly helps students to strengthen their writing skills. It helps to expand
student's vocabulary and show them different ways of using words. This also make easier
for them to use these words in their own writing. Thus regular reading helps students to
improve their writing skills.
 Create Writing worksheets: Every student much try to create their own sheets where
they can trace latter and words. Write down latter and words could help the students to
improve their thinking process and ability to write effective content. This could also
boost their writing speed with efficiency in content.
 Keep journal: It is grate way to make writing familiar process, journaling could gives
practice to students reflecting their ideas by writing about their experience , value and
beliefs. Thus, keeping journal helps students to analyse and grow their writing skills(.
González Canché 2018).
 Set daily free writing goals: Students can set a goal of specific number of words or can
take a fix time to write something on daily basis. They can write without thinking
whatever comes in their mind it could help to increase their writing skills and also
improve their speed. Thus, every student who want to improve their writing skills could
set a goal of daily writing.
 Writing prompts: These are a great way to start mining writing materials. Students
should write about different topics for improvement in their writing. This can increase
their theoretical knowledge about various topics so that they have martial to write about
their own thinking process. Thus writing prompts helps students to increase their
knowledge and process of thinking, it could help them improve their writing
skills(.Afflerbach. Hurt. and Cho. 2020.).
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 Be attentive to languages: students must be attentive to all the languages, they can get
help from different platforms for learning new languages. By using different languages
they can make their writing skills professional and more attractive.
 Cut unnecessary words: Wordy sentences can easily lose any reader's attention .
Students must try to use few words as possible while still communicating necessary
information. Thus, students must cut unneeded information or language and reduce long,
wordy sentences. It could help them to attract their readers(Gitlin. Kolanowski. and
Lyons. 2020.)..
 Understand the process: Every student must know the process of writing, so that they
can create effective writing. Process of writing help student to understand what they have
to write next after completion of their paragraph. Following steps of their writing process
could make writing easier for them. Thus, students must know about the process they are
using for writing.
 Use technologies for advantages: Students can use technologies to improve their writing
skills, they can use it to get information about what they are writing. They can use it to
development of understanding of topics and chapters they are writing on. Thus,
technology can help student in effective writing, technologies could also help in the
analysis of what they are doing and right way of doing the writing( Mokhtari. 2018.).
Thus, writing skills is very essential for every student, and these following suggestions can help
them to increase their efficiency in writing process. This could attract the readers attention
towards their written paragraph.
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CONCLUSION:
From the above given information it can be summarise that, every student must have
effective reading and writing skills so they can improve their performance. There are various
strategies to improve the ability of an student to make their reading skills more prominent.
Students can achieve their habits of reading by following the various strategies given above.
Furthermore, there are also many suggestions for the students to improve their writing skills.
These suggestions could help them to understand their abilities of writing and how can they
improve it in more effective and efficient way.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Gitlin, L. Kolanowski, A. and Lyons, K.J. 2020. Successful grant writing: Strategies for health
and human service professionals. Springer Publishing Company.
González Canché M.S. 2018. Nearby college enrollment and geographical skills mismatch:(Re)
conceptualizing student out-migration in the American higher education system. The
Journal of Higher Education, 89(6), pp.892-934.
Mokhtari, K. 2018. Prior knowledge fuels the deployment of reading comprehension
strategies. The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching, pp.1-10.
Picatoste, J., Pérez-Ortiz, L. and Ruesga-Benito. S.M. 2018. A new educational pattern in
response to new technologies and sustainable development. Enlightening ICT skills for
youth employability in the European Union. Telematics and Informatics.35(4), pp.1031-
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Succi, C. and Canovi, M. 2020. Soft skills to enhance graduate employability: comparing
students and employers’ perceptions. Studies in Higher Education, 45(9), pp.1834-1847.
Suleman, F. 2018. The employability skills of higher education graduates: insights into
conceptual frameworks and methodological options.Higher Education, 76(2), pp.263-
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Williams, R. 2019. National higher education policy and the development of generic
skills. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 41(4), pp.404-415.
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