Critical Reading Strategies

Directions: Identify what is being described in the following statement about critical reading strategies. Choose the best answer among the given options.

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1. This strategy refers to actively engaging with the text by formulating an evaluative inquiry about its content, purpose, and implications.

• Previewing

• Making Prediction

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Asking Question

Understanding the text within its historical, social, and structural background. Also, creating  mental images which help in visualizing text.

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Outlining and Summarizing

• Contextualizing and Visualizing

• Making Prediction

It is generally based on your schema. When you make this, you try to guess what will happen next. It is essential in reading narratives or descriptive texts.

• Making Prediction

• Previewing

• Identifying the Main Idea

• Comparing and Contrasting

Learning about a text before really reading it. It enables readers to get a sense of what the text is about and how it is organized before reading it closely.

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Outlining and Summarizing

• Previewing

• Contextualizing and Visualizing

These help the information put in order. They also help readers to remember the critical information in a reading.

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Outlining and Summarizing

• Asking Questions

• Copy Reading

This strategy distinguishes the main knowledge expresses a general idea. It is usually found towards the first Paragraph, and it is broader than details.

• Making Prediction

• Contextualizing and Visualizing

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Identifying the Main Idea

Making a concept about similarities and differences of the topics which deepens the understanding.

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• Comparing and Contrasting

• Outlining and Summarizing

• Concept Paper

This refers to the process of analyzing, evaluating, and interpreting the text read and its meaning.

• Critical Viewing

• Critical Knowledge

• Critical Understanding

• Critical Reading

Which among the strategies allows you to organize your ideas, structure your writing, and avoid common misconceptions.

• Outlining

• Prediction

• Previewing

• Contrasting