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Pre-reading (prediction) (what has already happened?)
Guess meanings (divide the difficult word; look for signposts; gather information)
Get an overall picture (style; headings, recurrent words, first and last paragraphs)
Responding (relate to personal experience; imagine you are the narrator; add extra sentences; form an opinion of the characters; rephrase parts of the text)
Analyzing (subject, purpose, linking words) 2
In a story :
In a story Characters
Descriptions
Creative language
Dialogues
Endings 3
Referring :
Referring In order to read effectively, you often need to analyze words like “this”, “that”, “as”, “how”, and pronouns, working out what they refer to. 4
Logical connection :
Logical connection Very often parts of a text are connected to each other without special linking words like “because” or “so”. When this happens think carefully about the logical connection of the ideas and try to put your own linking words into the text.
Remember to connect parts of the text to each other in a logical way (cause-effect, for example). 5
Global meaning :
Global meaning In expository texts like presentations: What are the main ideas?
In stories or narrative texts: What are the main characters?
In discursive writing: What are the main arguments? 6