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Reading Strategies

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READING

STRATEGIES

By Teacher Fyama Pereira


01 Basic Tips

•Firstly, ignore some of the


unknown words in order to
have a general view of the
text.
•The translation IS NOT the
best strategy.
02 Reading
Strategies
•Context
•Skimming
•Scanning
•Text Inference
•Cognates
•The dictionary
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Context

01 02
•Your previous knowledge .•The layout can also give
about the text can be you lots of information.
useful to get the idea of a
text.
04
Skimming ("deslizar”
sobre o texto)

A quick reading in
•What is your •Whats is the text
order to be able to
reaction to the about?
answer general
questions like:
text?
05
Scanning (“dar um zoom
no texto”)

Reading •Get the key •Answer


to obtain specific words of the proposed
information on text. questions.
the text:
Text
06
Inference
•Get previous ideas that you
may find in the text based on
previous knowledge;

•Raise possible ideas to


build a meaning to a text
based on guessing and on the
context.
07
Cognates are usually from Greek or
Latin and they are very similar to
Portuguese or words from English
setangoC
already incorporated to Portuguese.

different – infection– microbiologic


bacteria – education– organization
software – self-service – game
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Real Cognates
absurd *absurdo
famous *famoso(a)
lemon *limão
permission *permissão
FALSOS COGNATOS
appreciate *agradecer attend *freqüentar / assistir
brave *corajoso actually *na verdade
WORD FORMATION 09

PREFIXES E SUFIXES
They modify and create new words:
freedom
discomfort
activity
grandson
friendship
standardization
happily
sadly
10 THE DICTIONARY USE

•Very useful but students must be careful


with it, not to make the reading process
very slow and the student has to be able
to contextualize the words.
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joining today's class.

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