Higher level students, particularly those who are looking to move into higher education studies at an English-speaking university, need to learn to read critically. Reading critically means not just understanding the words in the text but also being able to ‘read between the lines’ for other layers of meaning presented by the author.
Teaching Critical Reading Skills
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Video Length:
19 minutes, 9 seconds
Agenda:
- Surface versus Deep Reading
- Critical Reading Skills
- Using Context Clues
- Inference, Fact, Opinion
- Identifying the Main Idea
- Pronoun Referencing
- Identifying the Writer’s Purpose
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