Effective Reading Skills

• Quick overview of text with predictable and unpredictable information relating to familiar and some new contexts

• Identifying and extracting the writer’s purpose and views, subject, main and supporting ideas, specific details

• Improving global reading skills

• Summarizing

• Understanding argument

• Interpreting texts with predictable and unpredictable information relating to familiar and some new contexts

• Summarizing information

• Comparing and grouping information

• Organizing ideas

• Developing an argument

• Linking ideas