1. Reading strategies revisited
Are you a good reader?
Reading strategies revisited

2. What was the last thing you read? Was it …
A novel, a short story, a play, poems?
A letter, an , a message?
A website, a newspaper, a magazine?
An article, a report, a textbook?
An advertisement, a travel brochure?
A puzzle, rules for a game?
Recipes, isntructions, a menú?
A cartoon, a dictionary?

3. You can read:
For academic purposes
For pleasure

4. For academic purposes
There are two main types of reading:
Intensive reading (careful, detailed reading of a section of a text)
Extensive reading (to gain a general idea of the contents)

5. Extracting salient points
Recognizing
Deducing
Understanding
SKILLS AND STRATEGIES
Identifying
Distinguishing
Extracting salient points

6. READING STRATEGIES Understanding vocabulary in context
Reading for specific information
Inference
Scanning
Reading for general meaning:
Predicting/ previewing
Skimming
Finding the main idea
Contextual referents/ Rhetorical devices and clause markers

7. For pleasure
Making hypotheses
Making deductions
Inferring
Visualizing

8. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!