Reading Skills Revision

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reading revision

Imran Toriq
Universiti Teknologi MARA
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Poll

At a scale of 1 to 5, how confident are you in answering the Reading Assessment in Week 7?

• 1 - I will most definitely fail

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5 - I will pass with flying colours!<

Poll

Which reading topic do you need most help with?

(You may choose more than 1)

• Contextual Clues

• Reference Words

• Main Ideas and Supporting Details

• Inferences and Conclusions

• Paraphrasing and Summarising

Open Ended

List at least FOUR (4) types of contextual clues you could remember?

Types of Contextual Clues

The meaning of the word is in the sentence itself

#1 Definition clue

A word with a meaning similar to another word

#2 Synonym clue

A word with a meaning opposite to another word

#3 Antonym clue

Uses examples to help explain the meaning of the word

#4 Explanation clue

identifying meanings using contextual clues and reference words

1. Try your best to use the words that are IN THE TEXT when searching for meaning

2. It can occur before the word (anaphoric), or after the word (cataphroic)

3. Read the entire text carefully to understand the context of the text

Match

Match the following terms with its corresponding definitions

• Stated Main Idea

• Major Supporting Detail

• Minor Supporting Detail

• Implied Main Idea

• Topic

Summarizes the other statements

Explanation of the main idea

Examples, stories, statistics

When the main idea is hidden in the para

The subject of the paragraph

• Summarizes the other statements

• Explanation of the main idea

• Examples, stories, statistics

• When the main idea is hidden in the para

• The subject of the paragraph

Ways to generate implied main ideas

1. Identify the topic of the paragraph - subject

2. Underline details related to the topic

3. Find similar patterns of the details

4. That pattern becomes the object of the sentence

5. Write in a complete sentence (Subject + verb + object + adverbial phrase)

Answering inference questions

For MCQs - make sure you cross out information that is explicitly stated in the text: NOT AN INFERENCE
For open ended questions - make assumptions based on details you can make from the text and do not repeated information that is clearly stated in the text

Match

Match the following paraphrasing strategies with its corresponding explanations

• Using synonyms

• Changing sentence patters

• Reverse the order of ideas

• Retell method

• Chunking method

Replace a word with a similar word

Active to passive voice, adv to adj etc

1st point becomes 3rd, 2nd to 1st...

Put away the text and rewrite

Focuses on the phrases

• Replace a word with a similar word

• Active to passive voice, adv to adj etc

• 1st point becomes 3rd, 2nd to 1st...

• Put away the text and rewrite

• Focuses on the phrases

other reading skills

1. Read the text

2. Identify main ideas / major supporting details

3. Identify transitional markers

information transfer

Skimming - Read quickly to understand the gist of the text
Scanning - Search for specific details

Skimming and scanning

​All the best!