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Active Reading - Coggle Diagram
Active Reading
1.3 How do you develop the skill of reading
Think carefully about what the words, sentence and paragraphs actually mean
Ask yourself questions
Read other topics
Highlight or underline keywords
Read a lot of text
Summarise points
1.5 Practice your active reading skills
Assume that each paragraph is a new topic
Skim through the passage
Make notes of words you don't understand
Identify the main points of the content
1.4 Skimming and scanning - getting the gist
Scanning
Understanding parts of the passage more closely after skimming
Gist
The general meaning of a writing
Skimmy
Reading quickly through a passage to get it’s overall content
Key words
The words in a question that makes it clear what should the focus of your answer be
1.2 Passive and Active Reading
Passive Reading
For example, What we read on road signs
Does Not have to think carefully about what we read
Active Reading
Have to think carefully about what we read
For example, legal document