readingstrategiesbasic-1224735738726730-8.ppt

For teaching English

1. Basic Reading Strategies

2. What is a Strategy?
A strategy is an activity used
to help students increase
their reading abilities.

3. Why Are Strategies Used?
We use strategies for the following reasons:
•Reading makes more sense for struggling
readers when strategies are used
•Good readers use strategies naturally
•Strategies make reading more fun!

4. Before You Start…
Before you start:
•Decide the purpose of your reading –this will determine
what strategy will work best for you.
•Ask questions before you start reading –this facilitates
understanding.
•Approach your reading armed with a pencil or highlighter.
•Underline key words and ideas that you need to remember.

5. Basic Reading Strategies
•Try and try again
•Zoom in on the text
•Note taking
•Concept maps & Graphic organizers
•Identify the main ideas
•Identify rhetorical patterns
•Reading in detail
•Summarize and Paraphrase

6. Try and try again
If you cannot understand a text, try and
try again using all available sources
such as:
•guessing using contextual clues
•using the knowledge of parts of speech

7. Zoom In on the Text
What if a word, a phrase or an entire sentence
caused a breakdown in understanding?
•Go back and reread a sentence or part of a
sentence that was confusing.
•Once you have identified the part or parts, you
can refer to other sources such as guessing
from context.

8. Note Taking
•Try to note down in the margin, at the end
of the paragraph or on a piece of paper, the
point the writer was making.
•Take good notes that will be useful to you
now, and also intelligible in a few months
time (specially for books).

9. Concept Maps & Graphic Organizers
•Mind maps and concept maps are good ways to
understand complex material and the
connections between ideas.
•Mind maps connect ideas together visually.
•Graphic organizers help you classify and structure
ideas.
•Timelines help you highlight key events.

10. Identify the Main Ideas
•Identify the main idea of a paragraph by
locating the topic sentence.
•The topic sentence often comes at the
beginning of a paragraph.
•Use graphic organizers to determine
the main idea.

11. Identify Rhetorical Patterns
Rhetorical Patterns are ways of organizing
information that are commonly used in
technical writing, such as:
•Classification
•Cause / Effect
•Fact / Opinion
•Problem / Solution

12. Reading in Detail
•Sometimes it is important to read every
word carefully and every example, and
to read the whole article, chapter or book.
•You may need to do this if it is particularly
relevant to some writing you are doing,
or clearly presents a concept with which
you are having difficulty.

13. Summarize and Paraphrase
•Summarizing is how we take larger selections of
text and reduce them to their bare essentials:
the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are
worth noting and remembering.
•Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in
brief form"; it's the distillation, condensation, or
reduction of a larger work into its primary notions.
•Paraphrasing is putting ideas into your own
words.

14. In Sum…
•Use one, all, or a mix of strategies of
your choice.
•Think actively as you are reading about
the significance of the text and the
connections between it and other things
you have been reading.
•Enjoy reading and learning!

15. References
•http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html
•http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/pdfs/reading3ed.pdf