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Enhance your reading comprehension with these practical strategies! Skimming helps you quickly grasp the gist of the text by focusing on topic sentences. Scanning allows you to quickly retrieve specific information by searching for keywords. In addition, predicting engages your mind in making educated guesses about the text, while questioning stimulates deeper understanding. Reading backwards emphasizes each word's importance, and inferring aids in grasping implicit meanings. Discover how to employ these techniques to improve your understanding of any text.
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Reading – what can I do to help understand the text? • Skimming: You read quickly through the sentences getting a gist of the text. Look for clues – the first sentence of each paragraph (the ‘topic sentence’). • Scanning:You use this to retrieve particular pieces of information. Identify and then search though the text for specific words.Remember key points in a text are likely to be in the first and last paragraphs Other strategies: • Predicting: Make informed guesses about the text. • Questioning: Ask questions about what you’ve read. • Reading backwards: Read backwards to focus on each word. • Inferring: Read between the lines to find the meaning.
Reading – what can I do to help understand the text? • Other strategies: • Predicting: Make informed guesses about the text. • Questioning: Ask questions about what you’ve read. • Reading backwards: Read backwards to focus on each word. • Inferring: Read between the lines to find the meaning.