READING 1 LESSON 3

Lesson III

utn/ILE/Reading I

reading strategies

Prof. MSc. Sonia Aguilar Ramsay

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Predicting

This strategy involves the ability of readers to get meaning from a text by making informed predictions. Good readers use predicting as a way to connect their existing knowledge to new information from a text to get meaning from what they read.9 Before reading, they may use what they know about an author to predict what a text will be about. The title of a text may trigger memories of texts with similar content, allowing them to predict the content of the new text. During reading, good readers may make predictions about what is going to happen next, or what ideas or evidence the author will present to support an argument. They tend to evaluate these predictions continuously, and revise any prediction that is not confirmed by the reading.

2. MAKING INFERENCES

This strategy requires readers to evaluate or draw conclusions from information in a text. Authors do not always provide complete descriptions of, or explicit information about a topic, setting, character, or event. However, they often provide clues that readers can use to "read between the lines"-by making inferences that combine information in the text with their background knowledge. It has been shown that when readers are taught how to make inferences, they improve their abilities to construct meaning.

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3. ORDER OF EVENTS

Sequencing is one of many skills that contributes to students' ability to comprehend what they read. Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story — the beginning, middle, and end — and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred. The ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts. Sequencing is also an important component of problem-solving across subjects

4. RECOGNIZING PURPOSE

Writers create texts for different purposes. For example, sometimes a writer wants to teach readers how to do something. Sometimes a writer wants to influence the reader’s thinking in some way. Other times a writer wants to give information. Recognizing a writer’s purpose will help you better understand what you read.

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