previewing

reading skill

1. WEEK 1 READING SKILL: PREVIEWING

2. Importance of reading

3. Pre-reading Strategy Allow students to think about what they already know about a given topic and predict what they will read or hear. B efore students read any text, teachers can direct their attention to how a text is organized, teach unfamiliar vocabulary or other concepts, search for the main idea, and provide students with a purpose for reading or  listening. (Danny Brassell and Timothy Rasinski , Comprehension That Works. Shell Education, 2008)  Pre-reading  encompasses all of the things that you do, before you start reading, to increase your capacity to understand the material.

4. What is Previewing? Previewing is a pre-reading skill by which the reader tries to gather as much information about the text as he/she can before reading it. This gathering of information helps the reader to have a general picture of the text. To find out what you are going to read before you actually read. Previewing a text mentally prepares readers to receive information from written materials.

5. When readers preview a text, they :

6. The Process Step 1 : Look at the title (Make prediction what the text will be about) Step 2 : Who is the author? (What credentials does the author have?) Step 3 : What pictures are in the article/text/cover page? (What clues do the pictures give you about the topic?)

7. The Process Step 4 : What is the structure of the article/text? Short/long passages? The structure of a letter is different from that of a newspaper article. Step 5 : Read the 1 st and last paragraph to get the idea. Make prediction.

8. TITLE AUTHOR PICTURES STRUCTURE