Reading Strategies Sheet

English Reading at Dankook University with Professor Amy-Michelle Reading Strategies LECTURE TWO 1. Pre-reading and predicting. Look at the pictures, headings, subheadings, charts, or anything else that may give you clues to what the passage is about. Thinking about what may happen next before you read it. This helps build reading comprehension. 2. New Vocabulary. Talking about how you felt about the new vocabulary. LECTURE THREE 3. Skimming. Skim over the reading, ignoring the words you don't know. Once you have a general idea of what the passage is about. Then go back and skim the passage for word you don't know. Look up the words with a dictionary. LECTURE FOUR 4. Summarizing. Summarize what you have read in shorter terms. Often summarizing means ignoring the examples, finer details and simplifies the main points. 5. Retelling. Retell what you have read to someone and give your opinion on it. LECTURE FIVE 6. Questioning (using a web diagram). Who, what, when, where, why, and how. They will help you remember the main points of the passage. LECTURE SIX 7. Making connections (using a mind map). Connect what you are reading with what you already know. Take time to find connections and think about what is similar and what is different to what you know. a. text-to-self b. text-to-text c. text-to-text LECTURE SEVEN LECTURE EIGHT LECTURE NINE

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LECTURE TEN 8. Similarities and differences (using a Venn diagram). LECTURE ELEVEN 9. Two word connections. Making connections between two new vocabulary words in the reading. There were three different connections mentioned; how are they connected, similar, and different. LECTURE TWELVE 10. SQ3R. Survey, question, read, recite, and review.