Reading and Writing as Macro Skills

• Macro skills


  The primary, main, key, and largest skill set relative to a particular context
• The four macro skills

  • reading
  • writing
  • listening
  • speaking
• Productive Skills


  Means of producing or disseminating information
• Productive Skills


  • speaking
  • writing
• Receptive Skills


  We obtain or receive information through this
• Receptive Skills

  • reading
  • listening
• Types of Reading

  • Extensive Reading
  • Intensive Reading
  • Skimming
  • Scanning
• Extensive Reading


  Focuses on new and general knowledge, used and advisable to use for pleasure, as it is evident when reading novels, arts, stories, etc
• Intensive Reading


  The reader focuses on details, and every piece of information is intensively examined, it takes longer to finish a document or literature work, more time-consuming, every word is paid attention to and must be fully understood
• Skimming


  Viewing a text quickly to determine whether it is useful to the reader or has the information needed, known or referred to as "gist reading", the reader doesn't go through each word but focuses on the main information, core, or theme
• Scanning


  The reader shuffles through text sentences to find detailed information, the reader looks for necessary information required in a text, involves rapid reading and is often used by researchers and for writing reviews
• SQ3R Method

  • Survey
  • Question
  • Read
  • Recite
  • Review
• Survey


  Skim the target text, check headings, tables, diagrams, or figures presented, read the first few and last sentences to determine key information
• Question


  Annotate the readings with your questions, develop questions on the types of information you expect from the text
• Read


  Look for answers as you read, stop and slow down if the passage is not clear, proceed when the previous text is already understood
• Recite


  Recount the main points, recall by writing a summary or synthesis of what you understood, highlight or underline important points
• Review


  Go back and read aloud the questions you wrote and see if you can answer by memory, evaluate what you learned to ensure that you are convinced and satisfied with the information presented
• KWL Method

  • What I should Know
  • What I want to Know
  • What I have Learned