Subskills

- or skimming, i.e reading guickly through the text to get a general idea of what it is about. For example, you skim when you look guickly through a book in a bookshop to decide if you want to buy it, or when you go guickly through a reference book to decide which part will help you to write an essay.

• Reading for gist

• Detailed reading

• Deducing meaning from context

• Inferring

• For specific information

readers use information from a text (including titles, headings, pictures, and diagrams) and their own personal experiences to anticipate what they are about to read (or what comes next).

• Prediction

• Reading for gist

• For specific information

• Detailed reading

• Deducing meaning from context

or scanning. When we scan, we don’t read the whole text. lWhen we look quickly for specific information such as a particular word, number, date, time etc.

• Prediction

• Reading for gist

• For specific information

• Detailed reading

• Deducing meaning from context

-  when you focus on the written material, really looking to gather specific information or evidence on a topic. This type of reading will provide you with a more in-depth understanding of the specific information, facts, positions and views on a topic.

• Prediction

• Reading for gist

• For specific information

• Detailed reading

• Deducing meaning from context

  Inferring

involves reading the words around an unknown word or thinking about the situation the unknown word is used in to try and work out its meaning.

• Reading for gist

• For specific information

• Detailed reading

• Deducing meaning from context

• Inferring

readers sometimes use to get meaning from a text. When they read, they work out what the writer's opinion on a topic is or what his/her feeling is.

• Prediction

• Inferring

• Deducing meaning from context

• Detailed reading

• Reading for gist