Zusammenfassung der Ressource
READING COMPREHENSION
TECHNIQUES
- SCANNING
- To locate a specific fact or piece of information
- IT looks for
- Names
- Dates
- Statistics
- Facts
- When you scan, you don't read every word, only the words that answer your question.
- SKIMMING
- To get the main ideas and a general overview of the content of the text fastly.
- It looks for
- Clue words
- Why
- How
- What
- When
- Who
- Proper nouns
- Typographical characteristics (italics, boldface, underlining, etc.)
- Unusual words, especially
if capitalized
- Qualifying adjectives (best, worst,
most, etc.)
- PREDICTING
- To think ahead while reading and anticipating information and events in the text.
- It helps the students make connections between new and previous information.
- It is used for
- Reading
- Writing
- INFERRING
- It is a mental process by which we reach a conclusion based on specific evidence.
- it´s the way in which you incorporate your Interpretation .
- GUESSING
- To assume, presume, or assert a fact
- In it you can use
- Affixes
- Context to guess word meaning