Academic reading strategies

What is the benefit of reading English texts?

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  This helps make reading academic texts more

  manageable.

• This helps make reading more bearable.

• This helps make reading more interesting.

What does skimming involve?

• Reading a text slowly

• Reading a text by skipping every two words

• Reading a text very quickly

Why is skimming useful?

• It helps you quickly decide whether or not the text is useful for your assignment

• It helps you decide if it's interesting

• It helps you decide if you like it

What does predicting involve?

• Learning new knowledge

• Learning nothing new

• Using existing knowledge about the topic to help better

  understand it

When you scan a text, what should you look out for?

• The whole text

• Certain keywords or symbols in the text

• Familiar words in the text

When you start identifying main ideas, what’s a good thing to do?

• Underline key terms and annotate

• Do nothing

• Think about the main ideas

When you come across supporting ideas, what should you look out for?

• Evidence that everything flows

• Evidence and examples to support the author's main points

• Evidence that the points make sense

When you learn new words, what’s the best thing to do?

• Don't use them at all

• Use them as you wish

• Use them in the first week of learning them

After you finish reading your text, what can you do to connect deeper with the text?

• Summarise the main concepts, findings and results into your

  own words

• Summarise your favourite points

• Write out the text word for word

What should you do to become a better reader of English?

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  Read for pleasure

• Read when required

• Read what you don't like