Reading

=** WHAT GOOD READERS DO **= __**Before Reading:**__ · Form hypotheses about the author’s purpose for writing. · Make predictions based on illustrations, charts and subheadings. · Consider what you already know about the topic or the genre. · Set purpose for reading. · Establish goals to pace the reading.

__**Reading strategies:**__

 a.  Skimming. - Quickly going through a text to find a particular piece of information.  b.  Scanning. - Quickly running one’s eyes over the text to get the gist/main idea.  c.  Intensive reading.- Reading shorter texts to extract information. This is more of an accuracy activity involving reading for detail.  d.  Extensive reading. - Reading longer texts usually for one’s pleasure. This is a fluency activity, mainly involving global understanding.  e.  Deducing meaning. - Understanding unknown words because of contextual clues.

__**Reading skills:**__

1.  PREVIEWING a. Making predictions: Say what will the text b about before reading it.

 b.  Anticipation: The ability of activating prior knowledge in order to help the text become comprehensible.

2.  INFERRING Understand a certain aspect of the text based on the meaning of the rest of information. It is necessary to use ideas stated in the text plus your personal experience.

3.  CONTEXT CLUES When you have to infer the meaning of a new word you take into account the context in which it appears.

4.  PREDICTING OUTCOMES Consists of establishing the end of an incomplete fragment based on the sequence of events.

5.  CAUSE – EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS The ability of finding the reasons or motivations why an event takes place or the consequence of an action. They might be stated or not.

Magazines, Holiday brochures, letters… Forms, official notices, bills and receipts, labels, directions, bus and train timetables… Dictionaries, text books, summaries… Reports, Catalogues, workshop manuals, notice boards…
 * __WHY TO READ? __**
 *  a.  Pleasure **
 *  b.  Survival **
 *  c.  Study **
 *  d.  Work **