​What does this text say? How did you process its meaning?

​Approaches to reading

​Skimming for main idea

​= reading quickly to get a general idea

​ Look out for key words. Think about the meaning of the text.

Scanning for specific information

​= reading quickly to find specific information

​Let your eyes move quickly across the text until you find what you're looking for.

​Reading Comprehension

• ​Skimming and scanning

• ​Distinguishing main ideas and supporting details

• ​Eliciting facts and details

• ​Synonymy = a word which has the same sense or nearly the same as another word, e.g. deep/profound

• ​Antonymy = a word having a meaning opposite to that of another word, e.g. long/short

• ​Homonymy = words written in the same way and sound alike but have different meanings, e.g. ball, bank

• ​Hyponymy = the meaning of one word includes the meaning of the other word, e.g.

​Reading Comprehension

• ​Recognising sense relationships

TWO major patterns of organisation:

1. ​Emphatic order, i.e. the list of items pattern

2. Chronological order, i.e. the time order pattern​

​Reading Comprehension

• Sequencing ideas and events

To show why something happens or the effects of something that has happened

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​Reading Comprehension

• Relating cause and effect

To show how two things are alike or how they are different, or both

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​Reading Comprehension

• Comparing and contrasting

= ​Ideas that are not stated directly

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Guidelines

1. Never lose sights of available information.

2. Use your background​ information and experience to help you in making inferences.

3. ​Consider the alternatives.

​Reading Comprehension

• Making inferences

• ​Predicting outcomes

• ​Drawing conclusions

Steps in reading a table / graph / chart

1. Read the title.

2. ​Check the source.

3. ​Read any captions at the top, the side, or underneath that tell exactly what each column, line, bar, number, or other item represents.

​Reading Comprehension

• Making inferences

• ​Predicting outcomes

• ​Drawing conclusions