Also view the reading through the lens of your own experience.

What is text in reading. Do these factors change complicate explain deepen or otherwise influence how you view a piece. It is often helpful to have students record information about each chunk in a graphic organizer which you may want to. However linear text or linear reading is not always advantageous.

Reading Skills Guide Why reading is important and how you can do it better. Why are reading comprehension skills important. Mark up the text.

When you contextualize you essentially re-view a text youve encountered acknowledging how it is framed by its historical cultural material or intellectual circumstances. Write questions in the margin underline things you think are interesting highlight important concepts or ideas. Relate what they have read to their own experiences and knowledge.

For example you can talk about the story of Jumanji which has several examples of cause and effect. Critical reading means that a reader applies certain processes models questions and theories that result in enhanced clarity and comprehension. A paragraph can be chunked into phrases and sentences while a reading of several pages can be chunked into paragraphs or sections.

Text comprehension and vocabulary knowledge. All the texts in this collection are written in normal English. While the majority of texts in this resource are at CEF levels C1 a few are harder level C2 and a few are easier level B2.

You should be confident that you have understood the text sufficiently to be able to use your own examples and compare. Students can be taught to be strategic and effective readers. With digital texts you can navigate as you like making it easier to find what you need.