Jensen's Reading Strategies |
Rate Development StrategiesFluent reading abilities |
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Previewing Surveying Skimming text and illustrations Determining appropriate reading strategies Understanding the general ideas Predicting Creating interest and motivation Activating background knowledge Skimming Reading quickly for general understanding Scanning Reading quickly to find specific information Developing reading rate Using timed readings Using paced readings |
Core Reading StrategiesCritical and analytical reading abilities |
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Previewing Skimming Scanning Understanding vocabulary in context Looking for contextual clues (synonyms, antonyms, functional definitions, descriptions, examples, clause markers, appositives, parentheses, cause and effects, etc.) Text highlighting Underlining the main ideas Identifying topic sentences Identifying important facts and details Writing comments (reactions, definitions, summaries) Taking notes on separate paper Recognizing rhetorical patterns Identifying main ideas Identifying supporting ideas Identifying rhetorical forms (description, exposition, etc.) Identifying rhetorical devices (defining, predicting, classifying, observing, illustrating, generalizing, etc.) Identifying patterns of organization Understanding part to whole relations Predicting and anticipating Inserting appropriate phrase and rhetorical markers Choosing appropriate titles, introductions and conclusions Filling in graphic organizers and flow-charts Identifying paragraph functions (background, thesis, counter-arguments, sub-points, conclusions, etc.) Critically reading Recognizing author’s purpose Recognizing author’s point of view Making inferences Drawing conclusions Separating fact and opinion Separating own opinion from text (Jensen, 1986, pp. 106-121) |