Assessing Reading

Assessing Reading

1. Chapter 8

   • H.D. Brown.

2. Genres of reading

   • Academic
     • Articles
     • Essays
     • Papers
   • Job-related
     • Messages
     • Letters/emails
     • Reports
   • Personal
     • Newspaper
     • Magazines

3. Skills and strategies

   • Micro skills
   • Macro skills

4. Types of reading

   • Perceptive
   • Selective
   • Interactive
   • Extensive

5. Strategies

   • Bottom-up
   • Top-down

6. Designing assessment

   • Perceptive reading
     • Reading aloud
     • Written response
     • Multiple choice
     • Pictured-clued items
   • Extensive reading
     • Skimming
     • Summarizing and responding
     • Note taking and outlining
   • Selective reading
     • Multiple choice
     • Matching tasks
     • Editing tasks
     • Picture-cued tasks
     • Gap-filling tasks
   • Interactive reading
     • Cloze tasks
     • Impromptu reading
     • Comprehension question
     • Short answers
     • Editing (longer texts)
     • Scanning