What are your own ways in

studying/reading? How effective

was it?
READING SKILLS
&TECHNIQUES
ED 109A
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READING SKILLS LADDER
1. Basic sight words
2. Using phonetic analysis
3. Using structural analysis
4.Using contextual clues
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READING SKILS LADDER
5. Vocabulary building
6. Finding the main idea
7. Finding the supporting
details
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READING SKILS LADDER
8. Inferring meanings, drawing
conclusions
9. Classifying and organizing
facts
10. Using parts of the book
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READING SKILS LADDER
11. Using the dictionary
12. Using the encyclopedias and
other reference books
13. Borrowing library books for
research and enjoyment
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READING SKILS LADDER
14. Starting your private library
collection
15. Exposure to reading from mass
media
16. Reading from the Internet
 KWL Table
• Graphical organizer designed for learning
• Stands for Know, Want to know, and Learn
• Part of the constructivist teaching method
• Provides students with their own learning pace
and their own style of understanding a given
topic
• Form of instructional reading strategy to guide
students through the idea and the text
PQRST Method
•Used to focus on key information
when studying from books

•Prioritizes the information related to

the examination
PQRST Method
•Preview
•Question
•Read
•Summary
•Test
 SQ3R Study
Method
• Developed by Francis Robinson, an
educational psychologist
• Created for college students; useful, also,
for young students
• Similar to KWL table and PQRST study skill
• Consists of five steps
SQ3R
•Survey
•Question
•Read
•Recite
•Review
SURVEY/SKIM
• Go through a chapter and note
headings, sub-headings and other
outstanding features (figures, tables,
summary paragraphs)
• Takes 3-5 minutes
• Provides outline or framework for
what will be presented
QUESTION
• Writing questions (guide questions) that you
want to answer after reading
• What is this chapter about?
• What question is this chapter trying to answer?
• How does this information help me?
• Takes 3-5 minutes to complete, but it will
motivate the reader to seek answers to the
questions
 READ
•Reading the selection carefully to
find the answers to the questions.
•Looking for main ideas and
supporting details
•Looking up for unfamiliar words
•Taking notes as you read
 RECITE
Reading the questions that you have
written down.

Thinking carefully about the answers

and reciting them in your own words.
RECITE
• Using own words to formulate and conceptualize
the material
• Recalling and identifying major points and
answer to the questions
• Can be done orally and in written format
• Beneficial to the testing effect
REVIEW
•Say back to yourself what
the point of the whole
material is – using your
own words
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SQ4R
A versatile study strategy because it engages the reader during
each phase of the reading process.

• Survey the chapter or reading material

• Write questions for each heading and subheading
• Read the information one paragraph at a time
• Select a form of note-taking to Record (write) information
• Recite the important information from the paragraph
• Review the information learned in the chapter or from the
reading material
 SCANNING
•Searching quickly for the specific
information he wishes to get from the
material.
•Looking for the specific piece of information
from the reading materials.
SKIMMING
•Quickly obtaining the central idea of the
paragraph or the composition.
•Reading something very quickly. It is
characterized as preview, an overviewing
and a survey.
 PREVIEW
•Finding out whether the look or article
is written by a specialist in a certain
field and whether it contains the
information needed
 OVERVIEW
•The student discovers the purpose
and the scope of the material.
•He finds sections that are of special
interest to him.
SURVEY
•The student gets the
general idea of what
the material contains
 READING
FOR DETAILS
•A thorough reading that
involves understanding and
analyzing what does each
word or statement mean.