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Lesson 3 Reading Strategies

The document outlines reading strategies and techniques for students to use when reading academic texts. It identifies previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, making inferences, paraphrasing, and detailed reading and note taking as important strategies. These strategies help students identify and differentiate reading strategies, demonstrate interest in reading, and gather information from texts.

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Lesson 3 Reading Strategies

The document outlines reading strategies and techniques for students to use when reading academic texts. It identifies previewing, predicting, skimming and scanning, making inferences, paraphrasing, and detailed reading and note taking as important strategies. These strategies help students identify and differentiate reading strategies, demonstrate interest in reading, and gather information from texts.

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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.

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