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The Surprising Benefits of Reading Aloud
Did your parents use to read a story to you at bedtime? Have you read anything aloud to your friends? When you recall those memories, do you feel a certain sense of closeness? For me, the answer is yes. After reading aloud, I also feel my reading is so attractive to audiences.
There are two common reading habits: reading silently and reading aloud. Personally, I prefer reading aloud. Last school year, I read aloud to some of my students. Soon I found they were fully involved in the story. When I read to them with vocal variety(声音变化) and emotion, students were able to understand the personalities of the characters.
Reading aloud allows others to hear the content(内容). It can improve our understanding of the text. This is why in ancient Iraq and Syria more than 4,000 years ago, reading means “to cry out” or “to listen”.
Reading aloud can bring other benefits to us. According to a study, reading aloud can help us to remember 10% more vocabulary than silent reading. If readers have speech difficulties and cannot fully remember the words they read, reading aloud can help those readers to improve their memory. It was said that reading aloud the words to another person resulted in the highest verbal(言语) memory recall. By contrast, reading silently produced the lowest verbal memory recall. Reading aloud can also help doctors to detect(测出) Alzheimer’s disease at an early stage if the reading includes specific mistakes.
Someone may ask: If there are so many benefits, why do we still read silently? According to a study on the effect of writing on the human brain and behaviours by Karenleigh Overmann, a professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, she discovered that silent reading keeps up with the speed of thought much better when people read while writing. Reading aloud will slow down the ability to read quickly because producing a sound needs more time.
Reading silently and reading aloud both have their own advantages and disadvantages. We can choose a suitable reading habit according to our different needs and situations.
1. What are the two common reading habits?
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2. What can reading aloud help the readers do if they have speech difficulties?
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3. Why will reading aloud slow down the ability to read quickly?
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4. Would you like to try reading aloud? Why or why not? (Please give two reasons.)
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答案： 1.Reading silently and reading aloud. 2.Reading aloud can help them to improve their memory. 3.Because producing a sound needs more time. 4.Yes. Because reading aloud can help me to improve my memory and improve my understanding of the text.(开放性试题,言之有理即可。)