Reading Strategies That Enhance Understanding

To quickly go through a text to understand the main idea or the gist =

• Skimming

• Scanning

• Inference

• Sequencing

To quickly go through a text to find a particular piece of information.

• Inference

• Prediction

• Scanning

• Anticipation

Choose 2 answers:

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Inference is...

• To understand what the author meant beyond the specific words in the passage (to read between the lines)

• To understand the chronological sequence in a story.

• To quickly go through a text to understand the main idea or the gist.

• To deduce the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through contextual clues.

To understand the chronological sequence in a story =

• Anticipation

• Sequencing

• Prediction

• Inference

Prediction :

• To quickly go through a text to understand the main idea or the gist.

• To quickly go through a text to find a particular piece of information.

• To make educated guesses about the content of a text: topic, what comes next how it ends.

• To deduce the meaning and use of unfamiliar lexical items through contextual clues.

Anticipation = To activate and build on pupils' prior knowledge.

• True

• False

• This story is about cats. What kind of information will be in the story?

What do you know about cats? What don't you know? What do you want to know?

Read these sentences about cats. Are they true or false?

The following activites are examples of:

• Scanning

• Sequencing

• Inference

• Anticipation

Which of the following is a Skimming activity?

• Read the paragraph and the guess the meaning of the word

• ·Read the first sentence of each paragraph and tell in a few words what the story is about.

• ·Arrange the instructions to this recipe in the right order.

·How do you think X feels? Justify your answer.

(is an example of...)

• Scanning

• Prediction

• Inference

Which of the following activities is: Prediction?

• Write an ending to the text. Now read and compare.

• How old is Jonathan?

• Find a sentence that proves…