Reading Skills and Strategies

_________ is looking at headlines, pictures, typeface, and layout to guess what a text may be about

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Prediction

• Inferencing

________ is reading to get a general, but not detailed, understanding of the text.

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Prediction

• Inferencing

________ is reading to get specific details, such as words, names, numbers from a text. It isn't necessary to understand all the text to do this.

• Scanning

• Skimming

• Inferencing

• Extensive reading

________ is reading longer texts for pleasure, usually outside the classroom. The student usually chooses what to read.

• Contextual guessing

• Inferencing

• Intensive reading

• Extensive reading

________ is reading to understand a message that is not openly stated.

• Intensive reading

• Extensive reading

• Inferencing

• Prediction

Which of the following texts would you read very carefully?

• a bus timetable

• a recipe for a meal you have never made before

• a novel recommended by a friend

• the headlines of a newspaper

Which of the following would you read for pleasure, without worrying about looking up all the words?

• a magazine article about your favourite celebrity

• a scientific article

• a flight schedule

• the prospectus of a box of medicine that the doctor prescribed for you

Which of the following would you scan to find specific information?

• an instruction manual for assembling modular furniture

• a poem about the coming of Spring

• the CEFR

• a knitting pattern

Which of the following requires inferencing?

• reading the instructions on how to take antibiotics

• looking at the headlines of an online newspaper

• looking up the birthday of a famous person on Wikipedia

• guessing a word from the context in a reading text during an exam

Which of the following involves prediction?

• clicking on an interesting looking title on a news website

• looking at a noticeboard for accommodation

• trying to work out the meaning of a word you have seen for the first time in a novel

• looking through the CEFR for descriptors for reading skills at A2 level