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e0106
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reading-strategies-previewing-0
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Reading Strategies | Elementary
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English Language Arts
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What Is Previewing?
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what-is-previewing
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Previewing is a reading strategy typically used before reading a text. It involves taking a quick glance at the text’s features. Previewing helps you get ready to read the text properly by getting all the context around it.

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Image of a text with a magnifying glass.
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Preview Process
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preview-process
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Text features to look atTo find quickly information on
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Headings		→ Text topic(s)
→ Text type
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Graphs & tables		→ Important text elements
→ Summarized information
→ Additional & complementary information
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Back cover		→ Text topic(s)
→ Author information
→ Descriptions
→ Summaries
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Summaries		→ Text topic(s)
→ Tone of the text
→ Text type
→ Literary genre
Glossaries→ Vocabulary
→ Technical knowledge
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Italic text		→ Important information identified
→ Emphasis on specific information
→ Attention grabbers
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Previewing at a Glance
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previewing-at-a-glance
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Quick overlook of the different things to look for when previewing a text as a reading strategy. Previewing is about gathering basic information in order to prepare for reading a text. Description : Overlook of previewing
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Previewing at a Glance - downloadable
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Reading Strategies at a Glance
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reading-strategies
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Summary table of the 12 reading strategies: previewing, activating prior knowledge, making predictions, decoding, visualizing, questioning, annotating, making connections, graphic organizers, inferring, summarizing and skimming & scanning.
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ie0106-3-reading-strategies-at-a-glance-downloadable.pdf
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See Also
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see-also
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Title
Activating Prior Knowledge – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/activating-prior-knowledge-reading-strategies-e0107
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Internal
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Making Predictions – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/making-predictions-reading-strategies-e0108
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Internal
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Decoding – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/decoding-reading-strategies-e0109
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Internal
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Visualizing – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/visualizing-reading-strategies-e0110
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Internal
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Questioning – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/questioning-reading-strategies-e0111
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Internal
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Annotating – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/annotating-reading-strategies-e0112
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Internal
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Making Connections – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/making-connections-reading-strategies-e0113
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Internal
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Graphic Organizers – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/graphic-organizers-reading-strategies-e0114
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Internal
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Inferring – Reading Strategie
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/en/students/vl/english/inferring-reading-strategies-e0115
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Internal
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Summarizing – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/summarizing-reading-strategies-e0116
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Internal
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Skimming & Scanning – Reading Strategies
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/en/students/vl/english/skimming-scanning-reading-strategies-e0117
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