Reading Sub-skills Quiz

reading to get detailed information from the text.

• intensive reading

• prediction

• scan/ specific information reading

• inferring meaning

• skim/gist reading

reading a text to locate a specific piece of information such as a word or a number or a time. It is not necessary to understand the whole text in order to do this.

• inferring meaning

• intensive reading

• skim/gist reading

• prediction

• scan/ specific information reading

either guessing the meaning of the new vocabulary in a text or understanding meaning or a message in the text that is not immediately obvious.

• skim/gist reading

• prediction

• scan/ specific information reading

• intensive reading

• inferring meaning

reading to get a general but not detailed understanding of the text.

• prediction

• skim/gist reading

• intensive reading

• scan/ specific information reading

• inferring meaning

reading longer texts frequently over a period of time. This is usually done independently and not in the classroom.

• scan/ specific information reading

• extensive reading

• intensive reading

• prediction

• skim/gist reading

looking at the headlines, pictures, typeface and layout to guess what you think a text will be about.

• intensive reading

• inferring meaning

• prediction

• skim/gist reading

• scan/ specific information reading