Reading Skills

 

•skimming

•scanning

•transcoding information to diagrammatic display

•basic reference skills

•selective extraction of relevant points from a text

•extracting salient points to summarise a text

•distinguishing the main idea from supporting detail

•identifying the main point or important information in a piece of discourse

•recognising indicators of discourse

•interpreting a text by going outside it

•understanding cohesion between parts of a text through grammatical cohesion devices

•understanding relations within the sentence

•understanding the communicative value (function) of sentences and utterances

•understanding explicitly stated information

•understanding information when not explicitly stated

•deducing meaning from context

•recognising the script of a language