Reading Unit Five

In this unit about reading, I could find some different terminology that are very important to keep in mind, in order to understand in a better way the reading skill.The first important thing to know about reading is to remember that this is a receptive skill, hat involves making sense of written texts . At the moment to understand a text is important to take into account some terminology about the word, sentence, and paragraph level. At the moment to think about some characteristics about a reading text we have to know what is a discourse, that is concerned by grammar and vocabulary also the previous knowledge we have about the world. It is important to know about coherence and cohesion and the relationship that these terms have between each other, in order to understand how can be a text structured. For reading skill, we have to consider other skills or subskills included inside this topic, that we can use in order to understand a text, we can have some skills like skimming or reading for understanding the global or general idea. Reading for specific information or scanning. Infering, through this skill we can know the words, register, grammar or style that the writer used for the text. Deducing, to think about the situation. Predicting, to use clues to guess what the text is about.

References

http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/stratread.htm
 Nclrc.org, (2015). Strategies for Developing Reading Skills. [online] Available at: http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/reading/stratread.htm [Accessed 8 May 2015].

http://www.studyskills.soton.ac.uk/studytips/reading_skills.htm
Studyskills.soton.ac.uk, (2015). Reading Skills. [online] Available at: http://www.studyskills.soton.ac.uk/studytips/reading_skills.htm [Accessed 8 May 2015].

http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Brian/611/readingtype.html
Fis.ucalgary.ca, (2015). types of reading. [online] Available at: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/Brian/611/readingtype.html [Accessed 8 May 2015].