Reading technique
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Description and purpose Activity
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1. Skimming
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Reading a passage quickly to grasp the main idea (or gist)
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2 Scanning
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Reading a passage quickly to find specific information
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3. Contextual guessing
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Making guesses about the meaning of words by looking at the surrounding words or situation
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4. Close exercise
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Fill-in-the-blank exercise, in which some words are omitted, designed to measure how well the reader understands how a text is linked together
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5.0utlining
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Note-taking. technique designed to help the reader see the overall organization of a text
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6 Paraphrasing
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The ability to say or write ideas in other words: measures the reader's understanding of the main ideas of a text
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7. Scrambled stories
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Also known as 'jigsaw reading': the reader re-orders the mixed up pieces of a text to he understands how a text fits together
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8. Information transfer
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Exercise which requires readers to transfer information from the text into another form of related text or drawing (e.g. filling in a chart, tracing a route on a map), designed to measure comprehension
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9. Making inferences
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'Reading between the lines': the reader understands what is meant but not stated in a passage
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1 10 Intensive reading
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Reading carefully for complete, detailed comprehension, (e.g. main ideas, details, vocabulary)
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1 11. Extensive reading
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Reading widely in order to improve reading comprehension, reading speed and vocabulary
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1 12. Passage completion
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Finishing a reading passage (orally or in writing), involves Predicting a logical or suitable conclusion based on a thorough understanding of the text
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