Reading Skills & Strategies

Which of the following is NOT considered an active reading strategy?

• Predicting

• Making inferences

• Highlighting everything

• Summarizing

What is the purpose of scanning a text?

• To read every word carefully

• To find specific information quickly

• To memorise the entire passage

• To analyse the author's tone and perspective

When an ESL student encounters an unfamiliar word in a text, which strategy would be most useful?

• Guessing based on context clues

• Skipping the word and continuing reading

• Looking up every unfamiliar word in a dictionary

• Asking a classmate for the meaning

Skimming is a reading skill used to locate specific details in a text

• True

• False

Which reading strategy involves asking yourself questions before, during and after reading to improve comprehension?

• Inferencing

• Visualisation

• Predicting

• Self-monitoring

When encountering an unfamiliar word, which fix-up strategy can help determine its meaning?

• Rewriting the entire passage

• Ignore the word and continue reading

• Reading only the first and last sentence of the paragraph

• Looking at the sentence before and after the word for context clues.