Strategies for Developing Reading Skills
PROBLEM: There are too many unfamiliar words
Use the features of the text
Look at titles
Look at illustrations
Look at the format
Use your background knowledge
Use efficient word attack strategies
Pay attention to cognates and borrowings
Look for familiar elements in new words
Consider the probabilities
Don’t demand an exact meaning for every word
Look at the big picture
Read the whole sentence
Look at the larger context
Keep on reading
Look for clues in the text
PROBLEM: I read too slowly
Identify the genre
Approach the text as if you know something about it
Read more
Read silently
PROBLEM: The sentences are too long or don’t make sense
Pay attention to “little” words and word endings
Some grammatical categories are especially important
Learn rules of word order
Break sentences into constituents
Learn prepositions
Look for discourse markers
Look for words that refer to other words
Rubin & Thompson (1994: 93-99)
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