Critical Reading Skills

Critical reading skills involves:

• Analysing

• Interpreting

• Evaluating

• Understanding

Based on the visual, as a university student which reading approach is more suitable for academic writing?

• Reading comprehension

• Critical reading

Based on the picture, how do you annotate?

• Read and make notes

• Scanning the content and summarize.

• Skimming the content and make notes.

• Underline key words and important terms.

What is critical reading?

• Reader read with critical attention to comment and make necessary changes to the text.

• Reader applies certain processes, models, questions, and theories that result in enhanced clarity and comprehension.

• It is merely just a reading technique.

• It is a reading technique also known as skimming.

Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.

>> This paragraph best supports the statement that:

• critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential

  process.

• the best critical reading happens at critical

  times in a person’s life.

• critical reading requires thoughtful and

  careful attention.

What is the first step of critical reading?

• Read the introduction for each source.

• Determine your position.

• Make sure you understand what the prompt is asking you.

• Read through all of the sources to find evidence..

Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant. This paragraph best supports the statement that

• critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process.

• the best critical reading happens at critical times in a person’s life.

• readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.

• critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.

A good first step when reading critically for a test is to:

• Do a reverse outline of the text

• Read from the last paragraph to the first instead of from first to last

• Look at the questions you need to answer

• Circle all of the bolded terms

Critical reading is active way of reading.

• True

• False

Based on the image what is the synonym of "unbiased"?

• Judgemental

• Subjective

• Impartial

• Interested