This document discusses reading strategies and their importance. It defines reading as a complex cognitive process involving word recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. It then describes several key reading strategies: activating prior knowledge, predicting, skimming, scanning, inferring meanings of unfamiliar words. It explains what each strategy is and how it can help readers better understand texts. Finally, it discusses why familiarizing oneself with different reading strategies is essential, as it can significantly improve reading comprehension, efficiency, and learning.

1. Reading and
Writing
Allen R. Hilario, LPT

2. What is the
idea being
presented?

3. RDEAIGN

4. READING

5. Unlocking
difficulties

6. What is reading?
Reading is a cognitive process of understanding
a written linguistic message.
Reading is a complex process of word
recognition, comprehension, fluency, and
motivation.
One of the macro skills in language learning and
development.

7. a plan of action or policy
designed to achieve a
major or overall aim.
Strategies

8. Reading and Writing
Reading
Strategies
Allen R. Hilario, LPT

9. Objectives:
identify the different strategies for reading
compare and contrast the different
strategies in reading; and
discuss the relevance of reading

10. Reading Strategies
“Reading strategies” is the broad term used to describe
the planned and explicit actions that help readers
translate print to meaning. Strategies that improve
decoding and reading comprehension skills, benefit every
student but are essential for beginning readers, struggling
readers, and English Language Learners.

11. Reading Strategies
Activating prior knowledge
Predicting
Skimming
Scanning
Inferring/Guessing the meaning of unfamiliar words
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12. Activating prior
knowledge
It is a pre-reading strategy, and it is useful in
getting you to focus on the content; it
prepares your mind to interpret the
information in the text.
We do this by brainstorming on the topic of
the reading text.

13. Predicting
This is another pre-reading strategy that prepares your
mind to absorb, interpret, check, and confirm
information.
Studies have shown that good readers are mentally
prepared to read a text; they have certain expectations
that they confirm, reject, or refine as they read.

14. Skimming
a method of rapidly moving the eyes over text
with the purpose of getting only the main ideas
and a general overview of the content.
Means quickly reading the text once to get the
general meaning. This requires speed reading skills.
This allows you to familiarize yourself with the
text.

15. Scanning
this means reading rapidly but carefully while
picking out certain keywords or phrases. This
allows you to pick out specific information
from a text.
Useful for picking out key learning points when
you read for learning.

16. When scanning, you must...
Know what you're looking for.
Know what you're looking for.
Let your eyes float rapidly down the page until
you find the word or phrase you want.
Read the surrounding material carefully.
(When your eye catches one of your
keywords)

17. Inferring/Guessing the
meaning of unfamiliar words
is what you do when you try and make
sense of words you have not seen
before, or of the way words are put
together in a text (context).

18. Why do we need to
familiarize ourselves
with the different
reading strategies?

19. ·Familiarizing ourselves with different reading
strategies is essential because it can significantly
improve our reading comprehension, efficiency,
and overall learning experience.
Further, familiarizing ourselves with different
reading strategies empowers us to become more
effective readers, enabling better comprehension,
time management, adaptability, and active
engagement with the texts we encounter.

20. References
Developmental Reading 1 by Avelina M. Aquino
Effective College Reading by Lee Gek Ling and
Susan Tan
www.calverteducation.com
https://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets
/readingstrategies/skimming_scanning.html

21. Thank you
for listening!