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Reading
ENW2013 - Reading and Writing Development 1
Miss Aimi SYafiqah Ghazali
 Importance of Reading

Discover Expand
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new vocabulary
knowledge Success Escapism
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Pre-reading Strategy
Allow students to think about what they already know about a
given topic and predict what they will read or hear.

Before students read any text, teachers can direct their

attention to how a text is organized, teach unfamiliar
vocabulary or other concepts, search for the main idea,
and provide students with a purpose for reading or
listening. (Danny Brassell and Timothy Rasinski,
Comprehension That Works. Shell Education, 2008)
Pre-reading encompasses all of the things that you do,
before you start reading, to increase your capacity to
understand the material.
What is Previewing?
Previewing is a pre-reading skill by which the reader tries to
gather as much information about the text as he/she can
before reading it. This gathering of information helps the reader
to have a general picture of the text.

To find out what you are going to read before you

actually read.

Previewing a text mentally prepares readers to receive

information from written materials.
 When readers preview a text, they:

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Activate prior Set reading Study Predict
knowledge goals important information
vocabulary
 Look at the
visuals
Read the Scan for special
headings/ terms/words
subheadings

Skim the
Read the review
What can
title questions
you do to
preview a
text?
 The Process

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Look at the What are the

Who is the
title pictures found in
author?
the article or on the
Make prediction What credentials cover page?
what the text will does the author
What clues do the
be have?
pictures give you
about
about the topic?
 The Process

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What is the Read the 1st

structure of and last
the paragraph to
article/text? get the idea.
Short/long passages? Make prediction.
The structure of a letter is
different from that of a
newspaper article.
Can you
preview
this?
Let’s try