Your reading journal can reveal aspects of your reading and writing habits that you might not

have been aware of, and

assist you in honing your craft. Plus, the next time a friend asks for a book recommendation, you’ll have the answer right
at your fingertips!

The best writers are often avid readers who read book after book, absorbing all they can from their favorite stories. But
whether you read regularly or less frequently, odds are you won’t remember every detail of every story. Keeping a reading
journal will allow you to revisit reactions you’ve had to books you’ve read and use this information to inspire your own
writing projects.

The Benefits Of Keeping A Reading Journal

1. Creativity is often triggered by something that we encounter. When an idea pops into your head mid-reading, writing it
down will ensure that you remember it when it comes time to write your own story or poem.
2. Keeping a reading journal encourages you to actively read and question what the writer is saying, rather than just
passively accepting it. When you submit work for publication, editors will actively read and question your work; cultivating a
similar critical reading eye can help strengthen your writing.
3. If you’re in a book group, you’ll be better able to discuss the books and offer insights that others may have overlooked if
you have notes to jog your memory.
4. Reviewing your journal will help you discover what you consistently like—and don’t like—in the writing of other authors.
This knowledge will guide you in developing and improving your own writing style.
5. A reading journal will help you quickly scan through summaries of the books you’ve read so you can revisit those that
are relevant to your current project.

That is a great way to keep a journal if you compile one. It is a great way to write ideas you have about reading interests
and it could influence writing projects you might have. This is really great reading and puts across its points efficiently.

KEEPING A READING JOURNAL

After you read each selection for this class, I'd like you to sit down and spend at least half an hour talking to me--on paper-
-about what you've just read. Don't feel you have to come to any hard and fast conclusions; instead think of this as
exploratory writing, a chance to record your initial reactions. This should, however, be connected prose. I think you'll find
that the very act of putting your ideas into full sentences will make you see more connections and possibilities in the text
you've just read than merely jotting down scattered notes does.

If the reading has been very complicated, you may want to begin by summarizing it, in order to sort out the information
covered. But you should not stop there. Go on to tell me what you think of what you've read. Try to make sense of it in
light of what you've previously known about the subject and what you know about the text in general. Some specific
questions you might answer are:
 What did you not understand? Were there any unfamiliar words or references? What things do you hope will be
explained further as you read more or hear more in class? Are you wondering what reactions your classmates have to
anything in the reading?
 What connections to previous reading or information do you see in this material? Does it alter earlier opinions you
may have formed? Does it deepen your understanding of the subject?
 Would you argue with the author on any points? Can you imagine others who would? Do you think the author is
ignoring anything vital or misrepresenting reality in any way? Does this seem to be a conscious or unconscious
choice?
 Have you had any personal experience with the subject that makes you see it in a different light? Have you talked
with anyone else who has?
 What seem to be the major concepts key terms in this piece of reading? How important are they likely to be in the
course in the long run? How important are they likely to be to people outside of this course or this discipline or this
college?
These are just a few of the hundreds of questions you can ask of your reading. The main point of this kind of writing is to
use it to examine reading in a more thorough way than most people do when they simply close the covers of a book and
go about their business. But also at the same time this should be freer, more creative than the focused, structured essays
teachers may usually ask you to write. In this writing it may help sometimes to think of yourself as talking back to the
author you've just read.

I'll look forward to seeing what your first reactions are.

Keeping a reading journal:

 Increases retention.
 Forces you to contemplate the material you’ve read.
 Allows you to study and analyze the material from a writer’s perspective.
 Provides a time and space for writing practice.
According to Albano (2001). In the Philippines, usually in a family, this category are not taught family life education by
their parents and schools because of the sensitivity of the issue, this is contrary to the wide assumption that family life
education is on. In practice, however, not much of sex education is taught in every Filipino family. Existing government
family planning programs have been directed principally to married couples.

Significance of the Study

The study will conducted to find out the extent of how extreme is the effect of the major causes of
teenage pregnancy to the educational development of students and out-of-school youth in Maramag,
Bukidnon. The result of this study is beneficial to students and out-of-school youth, to the parents,
teachers, to the community, school administrators, researchers and other interested individuals because
this can serve as empirical data where suggestion of minimizing teenage pregnancy in the community can
be taken.

This study will also benefit the parents to enable them to realize their great role in educating their
teenagers, protecting and diverting them from indulging early sex especially if without marriage. They
must be aware too of what kind of peers their teenagers have. This study too will make the parents aware
that education about the use of contraceptives will start also at home.

This study will also benefit the teachers for they could be informed how important is education to the
development of children to manhood. This enables them to guide and identify the major causes of teenage
pregnancy especially in Maramag, Bukidnon. Then and there they would intensify their functions to
counter those causes by diversity The interest of teenage in engaging early sex and if ever teenagers are
already fall of indulging sex both boys and girls, then contraceptives will play on this to prevent teenage
pregnancy.

This study will also benefit school administrators. It would provide them information of the importance of
knowing the major factors behind early pregnancy and the possible effects on educational development of
teenagers. It’s one way that administrators will intensify sex education on their school, improve the
knowledge of their faculties or teachers through seminars so that they can deal well with students to avoid
pregnancy at early age. And truncate if it not half way to the learners to be effective and to be
understood. The researcher hoped that the result of this study would also would also be a great help to
future researchers and to all people who are interested to know more about teenage pregnancy on their
causes and the possible effects on their educational development.

Statement of the Problem

This study is aimed to look into the effects of teenage pregnancy to the educational development of
students and out-of-school youth in Maramag, Bukidnon. Particularly it aims to answer the following
problems.

1. What is the demographic profile in terms of age, age when pregnant, educational attainment, status,
type of school attended and economic background of the respondents.
2. What are the causes of teenage pregnancy among the students and out-of-school youth in Maramag,
Bukidnon.

3. Is there a significant difference on the educational development of teenage pregnancy when grouped
according to age, educational attainment , status, type of school attended and economic background of
the respondents.

4. Which among the causes of teenage pregnancy effects most to students and out-of-school youth in
Maramag, Bukidnon.