Skills |
Definition |
Example |
Predicting |
It allows students to use information from the text, such as titles, headings, pictures and diagrams to anticipate what will happen in the story. |
Reading the tittle of a book or the chapter of a book and try to guess what is going to happen using prior knowledge. |
Finding the main idea, important facts, and supporting details |
Finding all the relevant information to the good comprehension of a text. |
Reading to make a summary. |
Reading for specific information |
Look exclusively for requested information. |
Reading a text to answer a questionnaire. |
Making inferences of new words from surrounding words and sentences |
Is a comprehension strategy used by proficient readers to “read between the lines”, make connections, and draw conclusions about the text’s meaning and purpose. |
Gathering all the information in a story and try to picture how it will end. |
Recognizing the structure/sequence of a reading |
It refers to the identification of the components of a story (the beginning, middle, and end). |
Identify the parts of a novel. |
Critial reading |
Involves presenting a reasoned argument that evaluates and analyses what you have read. |
Asking your self questions about the readingin order to reflect about them. |
Fast/quick reading |
It is the process of rapidly recognizing and absorbing phrases or sentences on a page all at once, rather than identifying individual words. |
When we are looking for particular information. |
Scanning |
It is a reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information quickly. In scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a passage only to find the answer, ignoring unrelated information. |
Reading to find the main idea or topic quickly. |
Skimming |
It refers to the process of reading only main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of the content of a reading selection. |
Looking for information to write an essay. |
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