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improving-reading-skills
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5 Tips to Improve your Reading Skills
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Reading Strategies
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reading-strategies
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Tools and Techniques
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tools-and-techniques
Title (level 2)
5 Tips to Improve your Reading Skills
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tips-to-improve-your-reading-skills
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Reading can sometimes be challenging.

Here are 5 tips to help your motivation:

  1. Determine your reading purpose.

  2. Choose the right reading environment.

  3. Read something you like.

  4. Break it up.

  5. Focus on what you understand.

 

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Reading Strategies
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reading-strategies
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Using reading strategies helps readers find meaning in the text and improve their reading skills.

The main reading strategies are:

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The reading strategies are: activating, predicting, inferring, questioning, summarizing & synthesizing, visualizing & organizing, searching & selecting, connecting, monitoring & clarifying.
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Activating
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activatin
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Meaning

How to use it

Using what you already know about the topic. Any past experiences and knowledge that could help you understand the text by making connections.

  • Find familiar elements in the text.

  • Make connections between text elements and yourself.
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Predicting
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predicting
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Meaning

How to use it

Using clues in the text to figure out what will come next.

Anticipate the logical next step in a text by looking at the context.
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Inferring
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inferring
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How to use it

Finding out what the text’s implied meaning is: reading between the lines.

  • Look for clues and figurative elements.

  • Use context to interpret meaning.
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Questioning
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questioning
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Meaning

Questions to ask

Asking questions about the text

  • What does the author mean?

  • What is the author’s purpose?

  • What is the main idea?

  • What are the themes/issues of the text?
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Summarizing & Synthesizing
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summarizing-synthesizing
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Meaning

How to use it

Saying what a text is about in a few sentences, in your own words. 

  • Look for the main idea(s) and elements.

  • Indicate essential and important points.
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Visualizing & Organizing
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visualizing-organizing
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Meaning

Ways to do it

Making a mental picture and arranging elements in meaningful order.

  • Use visual organizers like timelines, plot diagrams or mind maps.

  • Create mental images of characters, actions and places mentioned in the text.

  • Take notes.
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Searching & Selecting
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searching-selecting
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Meaning

Ways to do it

Looking for and choosing the right information in the text.

  • Look up some words or expressions.

  • Reread guiding questions and prompts.

  • Have a clear reading purpose.
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Connecting
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connecting
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Meaning

Ways to do it

Making connections with the text.

  • Find familiar elements in the text.

  • Connect them to your personal knowledge and experiences.

  • Connect them to other texts.

  • Connect them to events that happened in the world.
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Monitoring & Clarifying
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monitoring-clarifying
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Meaning

Ways to do it

Identifying what is not understood and trying to figure it out.

  • Stop and think.

  • Reread a part.

  • Analyze context and keywords.
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Tools and Techniques
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tools-and-techniques
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Title (level 3)
Skimming
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skimming
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50% / 50%
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Meaning

How to do it

Getting a general idea of the text by giving it a quick look.

  • Look at titles, visuals and tables of content.

  • Read paragraph openings and endings.
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Skimming advantages

  • It’s fast.

  • It quickly provides the main idea of a text.

Skimming disadvantages

  • It gives minimal information.

  • It gives no details.

  • Important information can be overlooked.

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Scanning the Text
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scanning-the-text
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50% / 50%
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Meaning

How to do it

Looking for specific information without reading the whole text.

  • Look for keywords or phrases.

  • Look for bold, italics, highlights or coloured text.
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Scanning advantages

  • Specific information can be found quickly.

  • Can point the reader to the right place in a text.

Scanning disadvantages

  • Only focuses on details.

  • General text meaning will be missing.

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Reading Out Loud
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reading-out-loud
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2 columns
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Meaning

How to do it

Reading audibly.

Read the text with your voice so that it can be heard.
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Reading out loud advantages

  • Can help understand certain words.

  • Practise pronunciation.

Reading out loud disadvantages

  • Can be disturbing to people around you.

  • Slows down reading speed.

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Taking Notes
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taking-notes
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Taking notes advantages:

Taking notes disadvantages:

  • Helps organize information.

  • Makes it easier to remember.

Slows down the reading process.
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50% / 50%
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Meaning

How to do it

Writing down interesting and important elements.

Note down important elements.
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Taking notes advantages

  • Helps organize information.

  • Makes it easier to remember.

Taking notes disadvantages

  • Slows down the reading process.

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Response Process
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response-process
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Meaning

How to do it

A series of steps used to help understand a text.
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Plot Diagram
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plot-diagram
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Meaning

How to do it

A visual organizer for narrative text elements

Organize story elements.

Visit the Plot Diagram concept sheet to find out more.

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Reading Guide
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reading-guide
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Meaning

What is usually found in reading guides

Document used to organize information read in a text.

  • Character descriptions

  • Story structure

  • Story events (listings & descriptions)

  • Story themes & symbols

  • Glossary for vocabulary

  • Guiding questions & prompts
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See Also
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see-also
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Response Process
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/en/node/36261
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Internal
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Text Features
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/en/node/36367
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Internal
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The Plot Diagram
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the plot
Internal link
/en/node/36615
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Internal
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Narrative Texts—Structures & Features
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/en/node/36714
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Internal
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Narrative Texts—Characters
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/en/node/36719
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Internal
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Narrative Texts—Forms, Genres & Literary Devices
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/en/node/36720
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Internal
Title
Taking Notes
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/en/node/37527
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