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This document provides strategies for boosting reading skills, including skimming to get the gist, scanning for details, highlighting and underlining text, predicting what a text will be about based on clues, sequencing events that are not in order, summarizing the main points, inferring ideas that are implied but not directly stated, using context clues, expanding vocabulary, breaking down words into prefixes, suffixes and roots, questioning texts to better understand them, clarifying understanding by re-reading, and visualizing information through diagrams or images.
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This document defines and explains the reading comprehension skills of scanning, previewing, and predicting. Scanning involves quickly searching a text to find specific information like names or dates. Previewing means examining aspects of a text like the title, headings, and visuals to gather information before reading. Predicting refers to making educated guesses about what will be in the text based on information gathered from previewing. The document provides examples of how to use each skill and concludes that scanning, previewing, and predicting can help readers understand texts more effectively.
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Reading Comprehension Skills
1. Previewing
2. Skimming
3. Reading for gist
4. Scanning
5. Text organisation
6. Guessing word meaning from context
7. Making inferences
8. Critical Reading
9. Applying Critical Thniking to Reading : critical Reading Strategies :
9.1. Previewing
9.2. Skimming
9.3. Annotation
9.4. Contextualizing
9.5. Questioning
9.6. Reflecting on challenges to your beliefs and values
9.7. Outlining and summarising
9.8. Summarising
9.9. Evaluating
9.10. Comparing and contrasting related readings
10. Integrated Comprehension Skills
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- Comprehensive reading is slow and careful to extract information and understand details. Critical reading examines reliability and distinguishes facts from opinions.
- Understanding passages involves noting details, identifying main ideas, inferring, making generalizations, and predicting outcomes.
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- Understanding passages involves noting details, identifying main ideas, inferring, making generalizations, and predicting outcomes.
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This document discusses different reading techniques:
1) Skimming allows reading at a faster pace to get the general idea and find key details like names and dates. It is used to determine if an article is interesting for research.
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3) Critical reading examines claims and arguments more deeply than face value through analysis of supporting points and potential counterarguments. It requires linking evidence to arguments, like in academic writing.
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Before reading, students use skimming, scanning, and analyzing first lines to preview the text and make predictions. During reading, vocabulary strategies like the Vocabulary Knowledge Rating Scale help students understand new words in context. After reading, students reflect on the text through activities like semantic gradients and story pyramids to deepen their comprehension. The document provides strategies to support reading at each stage.
Before, During, & After Reading Strategies
This slideshow contains before, during, and after reading strategies for middle school and older students to use with a text.
Comprehension.pptx
The document discusses various aspects of reading comprehension including skills needed for effective comprehension such as finding main ideas and supporting details. It differentiates between skimming, which involves finding the main idea or gist of a passage quickly, and scanning, which is even faster reading to locate specific information. The document outlines guidelines for skimming including keeping your purpose and pace in mind. It also discusses three levels of comprehension from literal to applied and provides examples of material that is suitable for scanning such as lists, catalogs and articles.
Chart 2 pre reading strategies
This document discusses motivating students to read. It defines motivation and discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. Some tips for motivating students to read include proposing engaging activities, creating interest, encouraging goal-setting, allowing student choice, and helping students find interesting topics. The document provides examples of motivating activities and practices and directions for discussing a text and rating motivation.
Advice on academic writing
This document provides advice on various aspects of academic writing such as developing an argument, addressing writer's block, critical reading, planning essays, and revising writing. It discusses formulating a thesis, doing research, taking notes, incorporating sources, and avoiding common grammatical errors. The document also outlines different types of academic assignments and offers additional resources for academic writing support.
Fix it strategies
This document outlines various strategies that successful readers use when comprehension breaks down while reading. It discusses seven strategies good readers employ such as using prior knowledge, asking questions, making inferences, and determining importance. It also lists signs that comprehension is failing such as not forming mental images or mind wandering. Specific "fix-it" strategies are then presented, including connecting to personal experiences, predicting, visualizing, asking clarifying questions, writing about what is read, noticing text structure patterns, adjusting reading rate, rereading, and figuring out unknown words. The document provides instructional suggestions for sharing struggles and having students record fix-up plans. It emphasizes that not all strategies work in every situation.
academic writing
This document provides advice on various aspects of academic writing such as essay structure, research, and reading strategies. It recommends that essays have a clear argument, answer a question or thesis, and be logically organized to present the argument. Effective planning is important to produce a coherent paper. Strong introductions set up the topic and context while conclusions provide closure and further thought. Paragraphs should each focus on a central idea supported by topic sentences. Thorough research requires critical reading, note-taking, and evaluating sources. Previewing, skimming, and summarizing texts aid comprehension.
Writing advice
This document provides advice on academic writing for university students. It covers various topics like essay structure, thesis statements, outlining, note-taking, research, citations, revisions, and specific types of writing assignments. The document emphasizes developing a clear argument, critical thinking, avoiding plagiarism, integrating sources, and revising for conciseness. It also includes tips for writing effectively in different disciplines and genres.
Reading skills
Here you will find; What is Reading skill? What is the Purpose of reading? Obstacles (barriers) of effective reading. Techniques of effective reading. Strategies of reading. Methods of reading. Types of reading.
Speaking, Writing, and Listening skills, it is one among the four primary language learning skills. So, it is looking at a collection of written symbols and deriving meaning from them. When we read, our brains translate the written symbols/letters, punctuation, and spaces that our eyes see into words, sentences, and paragraphs that make sense to us. We can read aloud or silently (in our heads).
Reading Skills
A chapter on reading skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi.
Reading Skills (PDF)
A chapter on reading skills from the textbook, Communication Skills, developed by the Language Communication for Development Department at the Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi
RED 4348 Before, During, & After Reading Strategies
Reading strategies help students comprehend text by guiding them as they read. These include previewing vocabulary, making predictions, and using graphic organizers. During reading, strategies like partner reading, note taking, and readers theater aid understanding. After reading, students reflect on what they learned through exit slips, summarizing, retelling, and story maps. These techniques support comprehension at every stage of reading.
Academic writing
A summary about academic writing.
Source: University of Toronto
http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice
Phases of Reading
The document discusses the three phases of reading: pre-reading, while reading, and post-reading. The pre-reading phase prepares the reader and includes setting a purpose, making predictions, asking questions, building knowledge, and scanning. The while reading phase supports comprehension and looks for clues. The post-reading phase extends appreciation of the text and includes evaluating understanding, comparing predictions, mapping ideas, discussing the text, and checking initial predictions.
Phases of Reading
These three phases are pre-reading, while-reading and after-reading phases. Each of them has its own important role. They are all necessary parts of a reading activity
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RED 4348 Before, During, & After Reading Strategies
RED 4348 Before, During, & After Reading Strategies
Boosting reading skills
- 1. Boosting Reading Skills Basic Strategies
- 2. Reading Strategies Skimming for gist- move eyes quickly across the page Scanning for details- move eyes diagonally up and down looking for specific words, phrases or information Highlighting and underlining- do not be afraid to write and make notes on texts. This is what they are for and is the best way of interrogating them. Once you find a detail or piece of text you are looking for, mark it. All close reading texts (and question papers) should be annotated, and drawn / written all over.
- 3. Reading Strategies Predicting: Look for clues- what type of text is it? Where is it from? Who is it aimed at? How can you tell? What is its purpose? How does the opening statement set up the reader for what is to come next? Use information like this to help you get a quick grip on new texts.
- 4. Reading Strategies Sequencing: events will not necessarily be told in order- use numbers, lines etc to help you be clear what is happening. Summarising: Read for gist. What are the main points? This provides an overview for more detailed reading.
- 5. Reading Strategies Inferring: reading between the lines. What is said, is often not said, but implied. Using the context: be aware of what a piece is about and where words lie. This will provide clues as to what it is actually about. Extend your vocabulary: use a dictionary and build a glossary of new terms. Use them- in your own essays across the school.
- 6. Reading Strategies Deconstruction and derivatives. Words are built from prefixes, suffixes and roots. Use clues like this to help you understand new vocabulary. Questioning: ask your self questions- so if…then …? Writing questions about a new text is the best way to get a good grip of it because you have to understand it and it highlights the tricky bits
- 7. Reading Strategies Clarifying: Check it makes sense. Read back and forward to make sure you understand all the links and that the ideas in your head fit with what is on the paper Visualising: use diagrams or images. Transforming a text into notes and diagrams means understanding the writer’s message and the relationships of ideas to each other. It can also make sense of things in your own head.