Reading for Understanding
Reading for Understanding
Strategies and application
Strategies and application
Reading Strategies
- Understanding vocabulary in context
- Reading for general meaning
- Predicting/Previewing
- Skimming
- Finding the main idea
- Reading for specific information
- Inference
- Scanning
- Contestual Referents / Rhetorical Device and clause markers.
Reading for general meaning
- Predicting / Previewing : Looking quickly at the text before beginning reading
- Skimming : Reading quickly to get a main idea
- Finding the main idea : Understanding the writer"s principal message
Predicting / Previewing
There are many specific strategies that are used when we read for the main idea. Theese can signal important main ideas and give us an idea of the gist of selection.
- Headlines, heading and subheadings
- Illustrations
- Captions
- Changes in typesetting (italics or bold print, for example)
Skimming
Read the title, subtitles and subheading
Look at the Illustrations
Read the first and last sentence of each paragraph.
Let your eyes skim over the text, taking in key words.
When Skimming
- Don't read everything but try to skip the text.
- Read the first and last sentences of paragraphs.
- Read the introduction and the summary.
- Read a few example until you understand the concepts they are meant to illustrate.
How to SKIM
- Read the title.
- Read the subtitle or intoduction.
- Read the first sentences of each paragraph.
- Notice any picture, charts, or graphics.
- Read the summary or last paragraph.
Finding the main idea
- Think about the meaning of the whole text.
- Identify a theese that connect each sentence.
- Look for examples that might explain the topic.
- Don't Focus on individual words.
Example Paragraph
There are many uses for this great product. Some mix it witch chocolate to make cake icing. It is the main ingredient in some milkshake mixes. It will also kill rats in small amounts.
Inference
- Look for verbs, adjective and adverbs.
- Decide how idead relate to each other
- Try to imagine what is happening
- Look for clues
Scanning
- Look at any heading. Find the section you want.
- Quickly look for the information you need.
- Stop reading when you find what you want.
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