Key Reading Skills

1. Taking a quick look through the text before you start Reading.
a) Predicting
b) Previewing

c) Inferring meaning

2. Understanding the use of pronouns in a text.

a) Inferring Meaning
b) Predicting

c) Identifying reference words

3. Understanding something that the writer doesnt say directly, by reading between the lines
a) Previewing
b) Inferring meaning
c) Identifying reference words
4. Understanding the main subject of the text
a) Identifying the topic
b) Scanning

c) Skimming

5. Looking through a text quickly to find specific information

a) Understanding the main subject of the text
b) Scanning

c) Previewing

6. Understanding how texts are organized

a) Understanding the main idea
subject of the text

b) Identifying text organization

c) Understanding the main

7. Identifying the main point the writer wants to express.

a) Understanding the main idea
b) Understanding the main subject of the text
meaning
8. Looking quickly through a text to get a general idea
a) Scanning
b) Skimming

c) Inferring

c) Predicting

9. Deciding if what you read is true or the writers personal opinion.

a) Skimming
b) Inferring meaning
c) Separating fact and opinion
10. Accurately identifying the information you need
a) Selecting
b) Separating fact and opinion
words

c) Identifying reference

Key Reading Skills

1.
Taking a quick look through the text before you start Reading.
a)
Predicting
b) Previewing
c) Inferring meaning

2.
a)

Understanding the use of pronouns in a text.

Inferring Meaning
b) Predicting

3.
a)

Understanding something that the writer doesnt say directly, by reading between the lines
Previewing
b) Inferring meaning
c) Identifying reference words

4.
a)

Understanding the main subject of the text

Identifying the topic
b) Scanning

5.
a)

Looking through a text quickly to find specific information

Understanding the main subject of the text
b) Scanning

6.
Understanding how texts are organized
a)
Understanding the main idea
subject of the text

c) Identifying reference words

c) Skimming
c) Previewing

b) Identifying text organization

c) Understanding the main

7.
Identifying the main point the writer wants to express.
a)
Understanding the main idea
b) Understanding the main subject of the text
meaning

c) Inferring

8.
a)

Looking quickly through a text to get a general idea

Scanning
b) Skimming

9.
a)

Deciding if what you read is true or the writers personal opinion.

Skimming
b) Inferring meaning
c) Separating fact and opinion

c) Predicting

10.
Accurately identifying the information you need
a)
Selecting
b) Separating fact and opinion
words

c) Identifying reference

Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________

Date: _________________________________________________________________________________________

a) Scanning
b) Identifying text
organization
c) Word groups
d) Identifying reference
words
e) Understanding the main
idea
f) Skimming
g) Previewing
h) Recognizing parts of
speech

k) Words with different

meanings
l) Antonyms
m) Prefixes
n) Collocations
o) Separating fact and opinion
p) Reading quickly
q) Guessing meaning from
context
r) Using a dictionary
s) Suffixes
t) Synonyms

1. (___) Looking through quickly to discover basic information before you begin reading.
2. (___) Understanding how pronouns help join sentences in a text.
3. (___) Understanding something that the writer doesnt say directly, by reading between the lines.
4. (___)Understanding the main subject of the text.
5. (___) Looking through a text quickly to find specific information.
6. (___) Understanding how texts are organized.
7. (___) Identifying the main point the writer wants to express.
8. (___) Quickly looking through a text to get a general idea of its content.
9. (___) Telling the difference between the truth and the writers personal viewpoint.
10. (___) Reading faster and more effectively.
11. (___) Thinking about meanings of words you dont know by using information in the text.
12. (___) Finding the part of speech, pronunciation, and uses of a new word by referring to a dictionary.
13. (___) Identifying a word as a noun, adjective, adverb, verb, etc.
14. (___) Words that are related to the same theme or idea.
15. (___) Words that have similar meanings.
16. (___) Added at the end of a word to make a new word, normally a different part of speech.
17. (___) Groups of words that are often used together.
18. (___) Added at the beginnings of words to change their meanings.
19. (___)Words that have opposite meanings.
20. (___) Using a dictionary to look up words that have several meanings.

Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Date: _________________________________________________________________________________________

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(_g__) Looking through quickly to discover basic information before you begin reading.
(_d__) Understanding how pronouns help join sentences in a text.
(_i__) Understanding something that the writer doesnt say directly, by reading between the lines.
(_j__)Understanding the main subject of the text.
(_a__) Looking through a text quickly to find specific information.
(_b__) Understanding how texts are organized.
(_e__) Identifying the main point the writer wants to express.
(_f__) Quickly looking through a text to get a general idea of its content.
(_o__) Telling the difference between the truth and the writers personal viewpoint.
(_p__) Reading faster and more effectively.
(_q__) Thinking about meanings of words you dont know by using information in the text.
(_r__) Finding the part of speech, pronunciation, and uses of a new word by referring to a dictionary.
(_h__) Identifying a word as a noun, adjective, adverb, verb, etc.
(_c__) Words that are related to the same theme or idea.
(_t__) Words that have similar meanings.
(_s__) Added at the end of a word to make a new word, normally a different part of speech.
(_n__) Groups of words that are often used together.
(_m__) Added at the beginnings of words to change their meanings.
(_l__)Words that have opposite meanings.
(_k__) Using a dictionary to look up words that have several meanings.