The document discusses various reading strategies and sub-skills, including prediction, gist reading, skim reading, scan reading, intensive reading, extensive reading, and inferring meaning. Prediction involves guessing what a text will be about based on headlines and formatting. Gist and skim reading provide an overall understanding without details. Scan reading locates specific information without full comprehension. Intensive reading extracts detailed information, while extensive reading involves frequent, independent reading over time. Inferring meaning determines vocabulary definitions or implicit messages within a text.
The document discusses various reading strategies and sub-skills, including prediction, gist reading, skim reading, scan reading, intensive reading, extensive reading, and inferring meaning. Prediction involves guessing what a text will be about based on headlines and formatting. Gist and skim reading provide an overall understanding without details. Scan reading locates specific information without full comprehension. Intensive reading extracts detailed information, while extensive reading involves frequent, independent reading over time. Inferring meaning determines vocabulary definitions or implicit messages within a text.
The document discusses various reading strategies and sub-skills, including prediction, gist reading, skim reading, scan reading, intensive reading, extensive reading, and inferring meaning. Prediction involves guessing what a text will be about based on headlines and formatting. Gist and skim reading provide an overall understanding without details. Scan reading locates specific information without full comprehension. Intensive reading extracts detailed information, while extensive reading involves frequent, independent reading over time. Inferring meaning determines vocabulary definitions or implicit messages within a text.
1. Prediction: Looking at headlines, pictures, typeface and layout
to guess what you think a text will be about. 2. Gist reading: Also reading to get an overall but not detailed understanding of the text. 3. Skim reading: Reading to get a general but not detailed understanding of the text. 4. Scan 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. 5. Intensive reading: Reading to get detailed information from the text. 6. Extensive reading: Reading longer texts frequently over a period of time. This is usually done independently and not in the classroom. 7. Inferring meaning: Either guessing the meaning of new vocabulary in a text or understanding meaning or a message in the text that is not immediately obvious.