Reading Skills

Reading Skills

Think about these STRATEGIES

SKIMMING

SCANNING

READING INTENSIVELY

PREDICTING

LOOKING FOR COHESIVE DEVICES

GUESSING THE MEANING OF VOCABULARY FROM CONTEXT

Multiple Choice

It is a preparation task by guessing the genre of the text before reading it. Use titles, subtitles and pictures to find out what the text is broadly about (using also previous knowledge and experience). The teacher could set up preparation tasks by setting up general questions to get acquainted with the lesson or passage to be worked with.

• Predicting

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Guessing the meaning of vocabulary

Multiple Choice

It is a fast reading process to get the general information of a passage. During this activity, ask your students to underline the nouns, starters and conjunctions in order to make it easy to pick out the general idea and concepts.

• Predicting

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Guessing the meaning of vocabulary

Multiple Choice

It is done for grabbing the specific information of the passage. Here the students ought to be taught the nuances of picking up specific information to underline the text for picking up dates, years, names, important vocabulary etc. You read your marked highlights in the text to search for your answers. For example, If your learners are reading a museum website just in order to find out how much the entrance fee is, they could use this scanning strategy.

• Predicting

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Intensive reading

Multiple Choice

Look for connectors and starters like 'on the other hand',' in spite' and 'even though', where the writer wants to take the text in a different direction.

• Guessing the meaning of vocabulary

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Intensive reading

Multiple Choice

Having read an article, your intermediate-level learners have found some words that they don’t understand. In this situation, ask learners to think about the linguistic context of each word. Ask them to use the words or vocabulary before and after the text to get clues about the meaning of new words.

• Guessing the meaning of vocabulary

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Intensive reading

Multiple Choice

You take time to read a text carefully to find out the authors perpective, to search for abstract concepts, to find out hidden answers, and to synthesize the text as a whole. This type of reading comes easily after constant practice of all the above strategies put together.

• Guessing the meaning of vocabulary

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Cohesive devices

• Intensive reading

Which of the strategies shown before are most likely to be used for reading the following? More than one strategy may be used.

Multiple Select

Novel

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Guessing the meaning from the context

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Recipe

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Looking for cohesive devices

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Instructions

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Looking for cohesive devices

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Bus timetable

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Looking for cohesive devices

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Newspaper

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Guessing meaning from context

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Advertisement

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Guessing meaning from context

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Email

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Guessing meaning from context

• Reading intensively

Multiple Select

Magazine

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Guessing meaning from context

• Reading intensively

• Predicting

Multiple Select

Legal document

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Looking for cohesive devices

• Reading intensively