Guidelines for Reading Books
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Guidelines for Reading Books
How to Choose a Book:
- look at the cover – picture, title, author
- read the blurb (at the back or inside front cover)
- look at the size of the writing
- try out the first page then skip to a middle page
- 5 Finger Test (read a page and if less then 5 words you don't know that's ok, more than 5 words you don't know, it's too hard)
- look at topic based section of your interest
- look at the size of the book
- look at the “Young Adult” section if relevant to your age
- choose another book from the same series of one you have enjoyed
- choose another book from the same author of one you have enjoyed
Abandoning a Book... Why?
- Too easy
- too hard
- too long to get into action
- boring – not interesting
- not enough explanation – too confusing
- not appropriate – insulting
- print is too hard to read
- designed for a different gender
- too specialised – jargon
- too sad, heavy going or scary
- don't like the characters
- monotonous
- too similar to another book
- too distant
- expected something different from this author
- don't like the author's point of view
