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Basic Reading Strategies USB ID1-101 Prof. Patricia Murillo Oct 2008

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What is a Strategy? <ul><li>A strategy is an activity used </li></ul><ul><li>to help students increase </li></ul><ul><li>their reading abilities. </li></ul>

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Why Are Strategies Used? <ul><li>We use strategies for the following reasons: </li></ul><ul><li>Reading makes more sense for struggling readers when strategies are used </li></ul><ul><li>Good readers use strategies naturally </li></ul><ul><li>Strategies make reading more fun! </li></ul>

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Before You Start… <ul><li>Before you start: </li></ul><ul><li>Decide the purpose of your reading –this will determine what strategy will work best for you. </li></ul><ul><li>Ask questions before you start reading –this facilitates understanding. </li></ul><ul><li>Approach your reading armed with a pencil or highlighter . </li></ul><ul><li>Underline key words and ideas that you need to remember. </li></ul>

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Basic Reading Strategies <ul><li>Try and try again </li></ul><ul><li>Zoom in on the text </li></ul><ul><li>Note taking </li></ul><ul><li>Concept maps & Graphic organizers </li></ul><ul><li>Identify the main ideas </li></ul><ul><li>Identify rhetorical patterns </li></ul><ul><li>Reading in detail </li></ul><ul><li>Summarize and Paraphrase </li></ul>

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Try and try again <ul><li>If you cannot understand a text, try and try again using all available sources such as: </li></ul><ul><li>guessing using contextual clues </li></ul><ul><li>using the knowledge of parts of speech </li></ul>

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Zoom In on the Text <ul><li>What if a word, a phrase or an entire sentence caused a breakdown in understanding ? </li></ul><ul><li>Go back and reread a sentence or part of a sentence that was confusing. </li></ul><ul><li>Once you have identified the part or parts, you can refer to other sources such as guessing from context . </li></ul>

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Note Taking <ul><li>Try to note down in the margin, at the end of the paragraph or on a piece of paper, the point the writer was making . </li></ul><ul><li>Take good notes that will be useful to you now, and also intelligible in a few months time (specially for books). </li></ul>

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Concept Maps & Graphic Organizers <ul><li>Mind maps and concept maps are good ways to understand complex material and the connections between ideas . </li></ul><ul><li>Mind maps connect ideas together visually . </li></ul><ul><li>Graphic organizers help you classify and structure ideas . </li></ul><ul><li>Timelines help you highlight key events . </li></ul>

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Identify the Main Ideas <ul><li>Identify the main idea of a paragraph by locating the topic sentence . </li></ul><ul><li>The topic sentence often comes at the beginning of a paragraph . </li></ul><ul><li>Use graphic organizers to determine the main idea. </li></ul>

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Identify Rhetorical Patterns <ul><li>Rhetorical Patterns are ways of organizing information that are commonly used in technical writing, such as: </li></ul><ul><li>Classification </li></ul><ul><li>Cause / Effect </li></ul><ul><li>Fact / Opinion </li></ul><ul><li>Problem / Solution </li></ul>

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Reading in Detail <ul><li>Sometimes it is important to read every word carefully and every example , and to read the whole article, chapter or book. </li></ul><ul><li>You may need to do this if it is particularly relevant to some writing you are doing , or clearly presents a concept with which you are having difficulty. </li></ul>

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Summarize and Paraphrase <ul><li>Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials : the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. </li></ul><ul><li>Webster's calls a summary the &quot;general idea in brief form&quot; ; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions. </li></ul><ul><li>Paraphrasing is putting ideas into your own words . </li></ul>

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In Sum… <ul><li>Use one, all, or a mix of strategies of your choice . </li></ul><ul><li>Think actively as you are reading about the significance of the text and the connections between it and other things you have been reading. </li></ul><ul><li>Enjoy reading and learning! </li></ul>

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References <ul><li>http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html </li></ul><ul><li>http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/pdfs/reading3ed.pdf </li></ul>