ESTRATEGIAS DE LECTURA
*PREVIEWING
Title
Try to stablish
What is the
your reasons
Headings
text about?
for reading
the text.
Potographs
and
Illustrations
*Look at the title
*Look for headings (titles of the different section of the text)
*Look at the photographs and illustrations.
READING FOR ENJOYMENT
Reading for entertainment or fun
like: novels
magazines
comics
books
*If your purpose when reading is to enjoy,
you want tobe entertained with
characters and pictures.
SKIMMING A TEXT TO DETERMINE MAJOR IDEAS
For a new or difficult text, you:


read it very don´t stop at words
quickly to get you don´t know
the main ideas (skip over them).
only.



When you have finished skimming
you can go back for a more careful reading.
NOTING CAUSES AND EFFECTS
More often for history text
Cause: is a person, event or thing that makes something happen.
(because)
Effect: is the thing that happens (so)
EXAMPLES:
The two countries couldn`t agree, so there was a lot of tension
Many people lost their homes because the city was bombed.