Reading for specific information. It does not read the whole text instead look for a piece of information that people are interested. E.g. look for the number of a postal code, place, year, name, nickname, acronym, specific words and others.
Reading for the gist. It is read just for the main idea. Readers can find these in the first or the last line of each paragraph because in English language the insights inside texts are well-organized and follow a structure.
Reading for detail: It refers to read every detail in a text from the beginning to the end. Does not matters if people as readers understand every word because these could be inferred from the context. It is a slower process.
Deducing meaning from context: It means that readers can try out new vocabulary inside a text from the context. They can read the sentence before or after the word that is found difficult figure out.
Understanding text structure: It refers to discover the different part of a paragraph or essay. For example, the main ideas that are located at the beginning of a paragraph. The supporting ideas that provided a better understanding of the gist. Finally, the conclusion that are placed at the end of the paragraph. Likewise, the structure of an essay that are the introduction, the body and the conclusion.
Inferring: It is drawing a conclusion from facts found in the text. What is inferred, speculated or guessed is something that does not written as evidence within the text.
Predicting: It is making a prediction from titles, subtitles, images, diagrams, pictures, and others without reading a text. It is used before reading to predict what is going to happen based on the prior knowledge that provide these tools mentioned before. Predicting helps people to think actively and formulate questions. Thereby, they will connect with the text.
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