PREVIEWING AND

PREDICTING
PREVIEW TO PREDICT
Previewing is an activity that you do before reading a book or a document to get a
glimpse of what the book is about. You do this by looking at the cover, the title, the
author, and the synopsis at the back cover (if any)
After previewing, you’ll be able to guess the approximate content of the book (what
it is about).
So previewing comes before predicting.
To preview and predict enable you to speed read because you don’t start reading
empty-headed. By having more or less some idea of what to expect from the book,
you’ll be able to absorb new information faster.
WHAT DO YOU PREVIEW?
1. The title and the cover.
These should give you some
clues as to what the book is
about
4. Pictures, graphs, charts,
tables, or any illustration that
come with the article or the
book
2. The headings and sub-
3. The table of content
headings for each chapter
6. The author. Some authors
stick to one genre or has
become an expert of one
5. The synopsis at the back
particular field of study. This
cover (if any)
should give you a good idea
what to expect from the
book.
WHAT’S NEXT?
After you do some previewing, you use those
details to predict what’s in the book or the
article.
By knowing what to expect, your reading speed
will also go so much faster.
PREDICTIN
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From the cover and the title of
the book, you can make an
approximate prediction of the
content of the book.
Take a guess: What do you
think the book on the right is
about?
Predicting from the author
Some authors like to stick to one genre of writing.
Take this one, for example: A book by J.K
Rowling.
Most people know J.K Rowling only writes one
genre of book. Can you guess?
Predicting from table of
content:
A glimpse of the title of each
chapter from the book can give
out a lot about the book.
Here’s the example.
What can you guess from the
table of content on the right?
Predicting from the synopsis.
The synopsis at the back cover can tell you a lot
about the book.
Take a guess of what the book on the right is about.