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