- There are two skills that are essential for a good reader: previewing and predicting. When you gather information about a book by examining its cover, you are previewing.
- The aim of previewing is to help you to predict or make some “educated guesses” about what in the book. You should develop the habit of applying these skills whenever you read.
- Previewing and predicting before you read can make a big difference. You can get some ideas about what you will read. That way you will begin to process the information far more quickly. You will also be able to follow the writer’s idea better.
- How to Preview?
- Whatever your purpose is for reading a particular piece of writing, you should have three objectives to meet as you read: to identify the author’s most important points, to recognize how they fit together, and to note how you respond to them. There are some suggestions;
- Get an overview of the context, purpose, and content of the reading.
- • What does the title mean?
- • What can you discover about the "when," "where," and "for whom" of the written text?
- • What does background or summary information provided by the author or editor predict the text will do?
- • What chapter or unit does the text fit into?
- Scan the text.
- • Does there seem to be a clear introduction and conclusion? Where?
- • Are the body sections marked? What does each seem to be about? What claims does the author make at the beginnings and endings of sections?
- Are there key words that are repeated or put in bold or italics?
- • What kinds of development and detail do you notice? Does the text include statistics, tables, and pictures or is it primarily prose? Do names of authors or characters get repeated frequently?
- Guidelines for previewing and predicting longer passages:
- 1. Read the title: What is the passage about? Do you know anything about this subject?
- 2. Decide what kind of text it is; is it an essay, an argument, a story, an explanation? Does it seem difficult? 2
- 3. Look at the way the text is organized; is it divided into parts? Are there sub-titles? If so, what do they tell you about the way the subject is presented?
- 4. Read very quickly the first line of each paragraph or sub-division; can you tell what the passage is about? Do you already know something about it?
- 5. Notice names, numbers, dates, and words that are repeated; do you recognize any of them?
- 6. Read quickly the last few sentences in the final paragraph; what is the author’s final point? Is it a conclusion or a summary?
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