1.

Identify and differentiate reading strategies

and techniques

2. Demonstrate interest in reading through

reading strategies and techniques; and

3. Use the reading strategies and techniques to

gather information from the academic texts.
purposes of
reading for you
as a student

purposes of
reading for you
as a professional
someday
 READING
STRATEGIES AND
TECHNIQUES
 READING
• Reading is a mental process of securing and reacting to an
author’s message represented by written or printed symbols.
• To read, one must:
recognize words
know the meaning of words
understand the ideas expressed by the author
sense the mood and tone of the selection
evaluate the accuracy of the ideas and use or apply them.
 READING
STRATEGIES
 Previewing
before look/ inspect
• Before looking at the entire text.

• Review the
• Titles
• section headings
• photo captions
 Predicting
• Anticipating
• It is using your existing knowledge that is related to the text
and connecting to the new information on the text
• Readers may use what they know about the author or the title
of the text itself to anticipate what a text will be about.
 Skimming and Scanning

• Using a quick survey of the text to get the main idea, identify
text structure, confirm or question predictions.

• This is like a quick glance on the reading text.

 Making Inferences

• It is using what you already know to guess about what you

don’t know

• Reading between the lines.

• Making inference has clues or evidences on the text that will

prove your guess about its content.
 Paraphrasing

• Focuses on the most important information in a passage to

help a reader recall the main ideas on the text.

• It is also using your own word in recalling a specific idea of

the text that will promote the retention of information.
 Detailed Reading and Note Taking

• This strategy is
• highlighting and underlining key words and phrases
• assigning keywords for each main point
• recording questions when reading and making it prompts for follow
up works
• and summarizing the text to check understanding.