SKIMMING

Refers to reading quickly to get an overview of the text, grasping the main ideas without going too deep or paying attention to detail.

BENEFITS

- Save time: Allows you to review large amounts of text in a short time.

- Understand the topic: Helps identify the main topics and subtopics.

- In-depth reading: It can be the first step before doing a more detailed and interesting reading.

- Review main ideas: It is useful to review texts that have already been studied. 

- Clear doubts: Allows you to navigate until you find what you need.

- Prepare for exams: It is useful to review the information that will be used. 

   EXAMPLE

1. To prepare an academic essay in which the most important ideas are chosen and the text is paraphrased so that it is authentic.

2. Prepare for presentations: It is useful to review relevant ideas and data and express

SCANINNG

BENEFITS:

- Review the text visually, use visual clues and stop at key words 

- Read the surrounding information to make sure it is relevant. 

- Develop the ability to understand the essence of a text without needing to understand every word. 

- Become familiar with the structure and characteristics of various types of text.

Refers to doing a reading or exploration that is widely used to search for specific data.

 Example

Search for a date, a name, A specific term as topics that need to be analyzed deeply.

GETTING THE GIST

-   After reading your text deeply, get the page's essential ideas or "Gist" in your own words. It is like creating a mental chain of ideas based on your material comprehension of the reading.

- Main Benefits: Comprehending and ultimately retaining and recalling information.

-   Examples of use: The gist of a poem. Or, we could apply it to a book like Game of Thrones. 

PREDICTING 

Predicting is a reading strategy that involves what will happen in a text.  And that helps readers engage with the text and connect new information to what you already know. 

BENEFITS:

ENHANCES COMPREHENSION: predicting actives the brain focus on thinking about the topic .

Improve retention of information: it improves better memory retention by creating anticipated text in the reader's mind.

Improves reading speed: readers make assumptions about what is happen in the text 

                             Examples:

1. Show and look the cover of a book: Before reading the book look at the cover and predict what the story is about.

2. The reader have to do a pause during the story: pause during the story to ask questions to help the readers revise and make their predictions

                     MEANING FROM CONTEXT

Context Clues are advice that the author gives to help define a unusual word. The clue may appear in the same sentence to which it refers, or it may follow in a preceding sentence. 

Benefits:

the reader is faster in reading: because the reader can define unknown words without to stop to look them in a dictionary.

Examples 

1-use synonym to guess unknown word: For example, using the words next to the unknown word can be a clue that a synonym exists.

2- Using Examples in reading: Providing examples of the unknown word can give readers a clue to meaning.