Reading Strategies

_________often aim to raise the readers' knowledge of what they are about to read (their schematic knowledge) as this knowledge will help them to understand the text.

• Pre-reading stage

• While-reading stage

• Post-reading stage

_________ helps students focus on aspects of the text and to understand it better

• Pre-reading stage

• While-reading stage

• Post-reading stage

_________ helps students understand texts further, by critically analyzing what they have read.

• Pre-reading stage

• While-reading stage

• Post-reading stage

_________approach is gaining a deep understanding of the main ideas in a text and is a necessary stage in forming an impression of the author's point of view and other higher-level responses to the content.

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ Unfamiliar vocabulary is ignored in favor of global understanding. Speed is faster than normal, but the text is still approached as prose (i.e. From left to right, top to bottom).

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ This approach to reading is for locating specific information or facts within a text.

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ Speed is generally slow and time is taken to process unfamiliar vocabulary.

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ This approach to reading is for gaining a broad impression of the main ideas within a text (sometimes known as the gist).

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ This approach is suited to text like lists, tables, dictionary entries, TV pages etc. Where it is unimportant whether the text is approached like prose.

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning

______ It is also ideal for locating details in a previously read text - e.g. a student searching for a key quote.

• Intensive Reading

• Skimming

• Scanning