Introduction to the

Reading Process and

Reading Strategies
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers
Peter Piper picked
If you must cross a course cross cow
across a crowded cow crossing, cross
the cross coarse cow across the
crowded cow crossing carefully.
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black
bread.
Spread it thick, say it quick!

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black

bread.
Spread it thicker, say it quicker!

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black

bread.
Don’t eat with your mouth full!
I thought a thought.
But the thought I thought
Wasn’t the thought I thought I
thought.

If the thought I thought I thought,

Had been the thought I thought,
I wouldn’t have thought I thought.
She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m
sure.

And if she sells seashells on the

seashore,
Then I’m sure she sells seashore
shells.
 Introduction to the
Reading Process and
Reading Strategies
“ A reader lives a thousand lives
before he dies…
The man who never reads lives
only one.”

- George R.R. Martin

What is Reading?
 READING
A skill that can be improved through consistent prac
tice.

An interaction between the text and the

reader

A skill that can be improved through

consistent practice.
 Reading Strategies

1. Previewing
2. Skimming
3. Scanning
Previewing


Looking at the readily visible parts of
the text.
Examples: Titles and subtitles

Familiarizes with the content of the
selection

Focuses on the important
information in the text.
Steps in Previewing

1. Identify your purpose for reading

2. Examine the titles and subtitles of
the text
3. Browse introduction and conclusion
of the text.
 Skimming

Looking for the main point in reading

Physically moving your eyes rapidly along
the page and tracing your finger along the
lines of the text to speed up reading.

Quickly going through beginning and
concluding sentences of paragraphs
(usually talk about the topic of the
sentence)
Scanning
When the reader’s purpose is to
locate a particular information in
the text, he is doing scanning. He
does this by browsing over the
pages and giving a quick look over
them.
 Scanning

Looking for specific information

Having idea of the details you are
looking for.

The instructions of your teacher
or questions about the text may
help you in knowing what to scan
for.
Scanning
In scanning you have a question
in your mind and you read a
passage only to find the answer,
ignoring unrelated information.
What’s the difference between
SKIMMING and SCANNING?
Difference
between
SCANNING and
SKIMMING
Skimming allows the person
to quickly read through
something to get the basic idea
while Scanning allows a person
to look up specific information
from a large text or some other
kind of information source. 
“Reading is to
the mind,
what exercise
is to the body”
What is a
Context Clue?
 Context Clues

These are hints that an author

gives to help define a difficult or
unusual word.
Context Clues

Words or phrases , and
sentences that surround an
unfamiliar word.

Help in recognizing the
meaning of an unknown word.
Common Types of
Context Clues

Synonym

Antonym

Examples

Definition
 Synonyms
The sentence uses a
 similar word to help explain the
meaning of the vocabulary word.
She hums continuously, or all the
time, and it annoys me.
Her animosity, or hatred, of her
sister had divided the family.
The dates are listed in
chronological order.
They start at the beginning and
end with the last event.
Bill felt remorse, or shame, for
his harsh words.
Antonyms
The sentence uses a word
.

with an opposite definition to

give the meaning of the
vocabulary word
Emma had a lot of anxiety about
the exam but I had no worries
about it.
Marty is gregarious, not like his
brother who is quiet and shy.
She is a famous singing star in
her country but unknown to the
rest of the world.
I am willing to hike in the
mountains, but he is reluctant
because it gets so cold walking
up and down the trails.
Examples

This type of context clue uses

examples to help the reader
infer the meaning of the
vocabulary word.
The cat has a kind disposition and
would never bite or claw anyone.
His duplicity involved lowering
his employee's salaries and
stealing the money he saved by
doing so.
I was aghast at her duplicity
when she stole my diamond
earrings, sold them on eBay and
lied to me about it the whole
time.
Definition
The meaning of the
vocabulary word is in the
sentence itself, usually
following the vocabulary
word.
Entomology is the 
study of insects. 
The manager wanted a weekly
inspection, which is a
methodical examination of all
the equipment.