READING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

A newspaper article	Your diary
A dictionary	A letter
A magazine	An advertisement
Subtitles at the cinema	A timetable
The receipt from a supermarket	Instructions for a machine
A label of a packet of food	A novel
The bill in a restaurant	The price list of some places
An official form of some kind	A piece of student´s homework
See the topic in a text	Look for known and unknown words
Schema theory or diagrammatic notes	Mind maping or spider notes

OTHER EFFECTIVE READING STRATEGIES

Read each word very carefully in order to understand the entire text.

Write the meaning of new words in L1.

Look up unfamiliar words in a bilingual dictionary.

Look  for linking words that help explain relationship between sentences.

Ask the teacher for help whenever there is an unfamiliar word.

Translate a difficult section of text into L1.

Think of other words that are similar to the unknown words.

Read a lot of different things in order to expand the vocabulary and improve  the general comprehension.

Try to understand the relationship between the main ideas and supporting details.

Look at titles, subtitles, pictures and other visuals.

Read a text very quickly the first time to get the main idea(gist).

READING SKILLS

Skimming: looking through a text quickly to understand the main ideas or gist. This involves some inference and interpretation.

Scanning:  looking through a text quickly to find words that match what you are looking for. This doesn’t usually involve interpretation.

Extensive reading: reading for the informational content of a text- you are not interested particularly in the language used but in the information.

Intensive reading: paying attention to the exact words which are used.