READING AND WRITING SKILLS

• Involves a series of complex thought processes which allow you to make reasoned judgements, assess the way you think, and solve problems effectively.


  Critical thinking
• Happens when you simply accept the things you are told without examining them. It also happens when you construct thoughts based purely on emotion.


  Non-Critical Thinking
•  aims to induce the reader’s motivation to read and to activate their schema.


  Pre-reading
• Rereading the text until you fully understand it. You can look for context clues, predicting, inferencing.


  While reading
• Checking if you really understood the text. The skills include reflecting, drawing conclusions, and summarizing.

  Post-reading
• Aims to locate specific information or main ideas in a very short period of time. Ex: examining and Skimming (both are pre-reading skills)

  Rapid reading
• Getting the general idea of the text. A type of quick reading where you get the main idea and overview of the materials.


  Skimming
• A reading strategy which aims to get specific information from a given text.


  Scanning
• A skill wherein the reader browses a material hurriedly and checks whether it is relevant to the information needed.

  Previewing
• Involves understanding the facts that are directly stated in the printed material.

  • Summarizing
  • paraphrasing
  • Note-taking (this three are done in the post-reading stage)


  Literal Reading
• condensing a lengthy text into a shorter passage

  Summarizing
• Restating the ideas from original text.

  Paraphrasing
• Refers to the process of deducing the facts and ideas not directly stated expressed in the text. A.k.a “reading between the lines”.


  Inferential Reading
• Refers to close and thorough evaluation of the claims in the text in terms of relevance, validity, and logic. 


  Critical Reading
• to be informed, to be entertained, and to be inspired.


  General purpose of reading
• A systematics instruction which aims to develop students’ reading skills


  Developmental Reading
• A more passive type of reading that primarily aims to provide enjoyment and entertainment.


  Pleasure Reading
• Designed to help students learn basic functional reading ability.


  Functional Reading
• Aims to correct the effects of poor teaching and learning.


  Remedial Reading