Approaches to reading

Useful reading

Tasks reflect real-life uses

Things that will help their future reading

Intensive reading

Reading for detail

Used for comprhension questions/ true or false.

Reading closely and carefully

Skimming and scanning

Skimming

Read quickly to get the gist of a passage.

Finding answer without reading every word.

Eg. key topics, main ideas, etc.

Scanning

Move eyes quickly to locate a specific piece of information without reading the whole text.

Eg. name, adress, number, etc.

Top-down reading

Route map

Pre-text

Text

Post-text