reading strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Which reading strategies do you know?

Reading strategies

1. Global reading/ orientation
   
2. Skimming
   
3. Scanning
   
4. Intensive reading (reading for detail)

Global Reading

What kind of text

who is the author

title, headings, illustrations

chapters, paragraphs

Purpose

find out kind of text you have.

before reading, so it might be easier to understand

Skimming

quickly reading a text, looking for keywords

is the text interesting for me at this moment?

look for index, quickly read first sentences

scanning

looking for specific information

price of a ticket, a telephone number

intensive reading

finding main thought

start wirh skimming

what is the writer's conclusion

opinion or fact

look for words or expressions 

statistics

scientific research

tone

emotional content

unfortunatly, ludicrous, fantastic, incredibly

signalwords and linking words

in fact, to sum up, in all