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Reading both
references (additional information and information located on your book) will give you a better option to
PRE-READING STAGE
Activities done during this stage include previewing, freewriting, surveying, questioning, exploring
assumptions, about the author, identifying the purpose and selecting a reading system such as
SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, review.) Similar methods developed subsequently
SQ3R
summary
Ask yourself,
WHILE-READING STAGE
The specific reading skills that readers may do during this stage include getting the meaning of
SQ3R
POSTREADING STAGE
It includes reflecting and thinking about the text, summarizing, paraphrasing, drawing
SQ3R
Orally ask yourself questions about what you have just read
Take notes from the text but write the information in your own words
Underline or highlight important points you've just read
Reciting:
The more senses you use the more likely you are to remember what you read
SQ3R
Day One
Day Two
and orally ask yourself the questions in the left hand margins. *
Make flash cards for those questions which give you difficulty.
SQ3R
Days Three, Four and Five
Alternate between your flash cards and notes and test yourself
Weekend
Using the text and notebook, make a Table of Contents - list all the topics and sub-topics you
Recite the information orally and in your own words as you put the Study Sheet/Map together.
As you have consolidated all the information you need for this chapter, periodically review the
1. RAPID READING
It aims to locate specific information or main ideas in a very short span of time.
SKIMMING
Focus more on the first and the last sentences of each paragraph; they usually contain the main
idea of the text but they may also appear in the middle or they may also be implied (not explicitly
MAIN IDEA
A quick reading strategy which aims to get specific information from a given text.
Be clear with the information that you need: check if you are looking for a date, figure, person,
2. PREVIEWING
It allows a reader to look over the reading material to become familiar with its part.
Previewing allows readers to set the purpose and link the content of the material to their
3. LITERAL READING
Involves the understanding of ideas and facts that are directly stated in the printed material. Skills
under this category include note-taking, paraphrasing and summarizing. It is conducted during the
postreading stage.
SUMMARIZING
It is a reading skill that involves condensing a lengthy text into a shorter passage which is usually
Write what you remember guided by the details/ keywords you have noted.
Consider the principles of unity, coherence and emphasis; mechanics of writing such as
PARAPHRASING
Details
Paraphrasing is done to simplify a complicated text, improve your study skills, and borrow ideas
4. INFERENTIAL READING
While-reading stage
The more evidence you take from the text to support your inference, the closer your inference is
5. CRITICAL READING
Refers to the close and thorough evaluation of the claims in the text in terms of relevance, validity
and logic. This skill includes distinguishing facts from opinions and detecting logical fallacies.
These are words, phrases or sentences used in a selection to understand difficult or unknown words.
CONTEXT CLUES
Example: Tuberculosis, a widely spread disease among the poor, springs out from poverty.
Example: The twins are diligent. Nobody between them is lazy to study.
Example: Do not continue to live like the heathen, whose thoughts are worthless and whose
minds are in the dark. They have no part in the life of God gives, for they are stubborn and
ignorant.
KWL TABLE
World Literature enables us to 1. History of literature and its I learned that there are theories about
learn the joys, anxieties, transitions. the history of literature and the most
PQRST
Prioritizes the information in a way that relates directly to how they will be asked to use that
information in an examination.
1. PREVIEW The student looks at the topic to be learned by glancing over the major headings and
of the topic/s.
3. READ The student reads through the related material, focusing on the information that best
process. This may include written notes, spider diagrams, flow diagrams, labeled diagrams or
5. TEST The student answers the questions drafted earlier, avoiding adding any questions that