Difference between Reading Skills and Strategies

Difference between Reading Skills and Strategies

1. Reading Skills

   • Reading is a complex activity which involve the ability to read different types of text
   • It has been used in reading curricula
   • An acquired ability to perform in a correct way
   • Indicate that there are many types of behaviors and cognitions
   • The term has been use to describe general skills like comprehension, retention, organization, research, and interpretation
   • They are create to control and modify the efforts to decode text, understand words, and construct meanings of text
   • They are automatic actions that result in decoding and comprehension with speed, efficiency, and fluency
   • It is an unconscious activity
   • They motivated by goals of fluency, effortlessness, and accuracy
   • Automatic processes
   • When the knowledge is strong and they are given easy text apply your usual skills.

2. Strategies

   • Is use to describe aspects of reading that involve intentional control and deliberate direction of behavior.
   • Is use to imply the cognitive aspects of information processing
   • It refers to a systematic plan, adapted a to improve the performance in learning.
   • Its apply to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.
   • It points out importance of processing information
   • Sometimes they are use to achive a goal
   • It is deliberate, conscious, metacognitive act
   • After a long time of practicing a strategy it will be more efficiently and automatic
   • It's important to motivate to use and practice the strategies to get better results
   • Use them in initial learning
   • It is necessary to use strategies for a fluent reading in which intentions, actions and objectives
   • Detect problems to apply strategies
   • Analyze your own strategies to increase your knowledge
   • Controlled processes
   • If the knowledge is sketchy, texts are difficult you'll need to strategic reading

3. These terms are use to describe features of children’s reading development

4. Strategy after practice for a while becomes a skill

5. Both may serve the same goals and may result in the same behavior

6. It's convenient to encourage both skilled and strategic reading to know how to read strategically.