Principles of developing reading skills

What is extensive reading?

• It is reading short pieces of text

• it is reading long pieces of text

• It is reading for details

Answer explanation

Reading for gist is

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Reading for details

• Extensive reading

What is not included in pre-reading stage?

• Video

• KWL chart

• Questions

• Discussion

Scanning

• Reading for details

• Reading for specific information

• Reading for pleasure

Choose right reading skill to the question: In the final sentence what does “this” refer to?

• Inferring

• Recognising links

• Predicting

• Skimming

Choose right reading skill to the question: Look quickly at the text on the next page. What is it about?

• Predicting

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Inferring

Choose right reading skill to the question: This is the first part of a text on learning styles. What do you think 2nd part will be about?

• Identifying the main message

• Predicting

• Recognising links

• Guessing meaning from context

Retelling the story is

• Pre-reading activity

• While-reading activity

• Post-reading activity

Helping students gain new knowledge is

• Pre-reading activity

• While-reading activity

• Post-reading activity