Analytic Reading Skills

• Analytic Reading Skills

Before Reading

• Begin reading by examining the text
• Analyzing the text's external characteristics aids in deciding the best reading strategy
• Previewing or surveying is part of this (fast reading)
• Thinking processes begin
• Investigating prior knowledge and Prediction

While Reading

• The majority of the thinking process happens when actively reading.
• The reader utilizes diverse skill sets to completely understand the text
• The reader's questions and predictions from before reading aid focus

Effective reading techniques

• Estimating reading speed
• Visualization of what is read
• Creating connections
• Inferring/forming judgement
• Comprehension monitoring
• Rereading
• Deriving meaning from context

General facts

• Comprehension is shallow if the reader doesn't retain what they learn
• Active readers move learned information into long-term memory through elaboration, organization, and idea generation

After Reading

• Deep comprehension can be continued after the reading process by assessing comprehension, summarizing, synthesizing, and evaluating
• Learning becomes meaningful when a reader does this and important information is more likely to be remembered

Identifying Opinion Versus Fact

• Objective: The author's intention and motive in the text
• Perspective: Identifying the author's preferences
• Feeling: Recognizing the author's implied emotion

Writing Paraphrases, Abstracts, and Reviews

• Paraphrasing involves restating the author's ideas in a different way to make it easier for the reader to grasp
• An abstract is a summary of research, a thesis, or notes from a conference or study, and it can also be called a precis or synopsis
• A review is a type of literary criticism that analyzes a book based on its content, style, and writing. Reviews include the evaluation based on someone's point of view

Informative Texts

• Why are informative texts important to read?

Informative Text Defined

• Also called "expository"
• A type of expression that aims to explain and provide information
• A type of non-fiction reading material which explains concepts based on real events
• Provides information to the readers, to explain, add meaning, and teach

Styles of writing

• Direct texts come from a person who experienced the event, or witnessed it
• Indirect texts come from someone who heard it from a witness

Common Questions Answered

• Where
• When
• What
• Who
• How

Points to note

• The language used should be easy to understand or technical
• Accuracy: Content(data)
• Updated
• Objective: Presenting fact or knowledge without bias

Examples of Texts

• Reference books
• Encyclopedia, almanacs, textbooks, journals
• Research papers, Scientific reports, News and Biographies

Types of Informative Texts

• Cause and effect: Discusses why things happen and the results
• Comparison: Shows the differences and similarities between any things, concepts, or events
• Definition: Explains the meaning of a word, term, or concept, differentiating between denotative and connotative meanings
• Definition - (red - color) from dictionary
• Connotative - (bad) deep meaning
• Listing Classification: Provides a list for the classification of the texts

Informative Text Structure

• General to specific structures
• Explain meaning and classifications