Fundamental Reading Skills Quiz

Types of Reading

• Developmental Reading: a systematic instruction to develop students' reading skills, e.g. Ryan reads a long text to improve his reading comprehension skills.
• Pleasure Reading: a passive type of reading for enjoyment and entertainment, e.g. Karen reads her favorite book to relax.
• Functional Reading: designed to help students learn basic functional reading abilities, e.g. Felipe reads a college application form to understand how to fill it out.
• Remedial Reading: aims to correct the effects of poor teaching and poor learning, e.g. Francis reads a pronunciation chart with his teacher to correct his pronunciation.

Reading Process

• Pre-reading: aims to induce motivation and activate background knowledge.
• While-reading: rereading the text until fully understanding its meaning.
• Post-reading: checking understanding of the text.

Basic Reading Skills

• Vocabulary acquisition
• Pre-reading strategies
• Textual comprehension
• Organizational skills
• Response techniques
• Mastering basic reading skills enables increased reading speed, comprehension, and overall vocabulary.

Reading Techniques

• Rapid Reading: aims to locate specific information or main idea in a short span of time.
• Skimming: getting the main idea by reading through the text quickly.
• Scanning: getting specific information from a given text.
• Previewing: a skill that involves clarifying the purpose, reading title and headings, and checking illustrations and visuals.

Critical Reading

• Involves close and thorough evaluation of claims in the text.
• Distinguishing facts from opinion.
• Detecting logical fallacies (faulty reasoning).

Inferential Reading

• Refers to the process of deducing facts and ideas not directly expressed in the text.
• Involves reading between the lines.