Reading Article Reflection

I think it that my reading style definitely varies depending on the genre I'm reading. If it is something I'm reading for fun it doesn't take too long for me to be able to focus; However, if it is school related/factual I find I have a hard time focusing my attention on the assigned reading. I do use prior knowledge as I'm reading to make connections to what is being talked about and most of the time I will look up something I don't understand if I can't figure it out through context clues. I think I'm a good reader because I'm able to read fast, and most of the time it's easy for me to figure out what the main idea of the reading is. I can take away many great ideas from this article that will help me with my reading in the future such as trying to make more predictions as I read. This will be one of the hardest strategies that will be the most difficult for myself to change because I think that deep down I'm slightly afraid to be wrong and have proof of it, because I do make the predictions in my head, just not actually written. This goes along with Number 4, the tolerance for failure and being able to re read the text. I don't think anyone enjoys being wrong, but I hate when I strongly feel something is going to happen in a book and the opposite comes out of nowhere. I get kind of disappointed in myself and wonder why I did not think of that before it happened. Personally, I do not enjoy annotating. I'm very good at finding the important parts and separating them with a highlight and even taking notes in the margin, but I just feel like it distracts me from the story and as I stated before it is often hard for me to find my focus when reading for school. Though annotating is not my favorite thing, it definitely comes in handy and is important when chapter quizzes or essays come around. I definitely would not annotate anything I read for fun, but I like that it so easy to locate different areas in the book faster when it comes to books that are required readings for school.