I've chosen
*I skim, looking at and thinking about illustrations, photos, graghs, and charts.
*read headings and captions*
*I read the back cover and /or print on the inside if the jacket*
I guess before-reading strategies are mostly for activating background knowledgy. When I first laid my eyes on the book to read, I read headings or captions on the cover(front and back) and I always read the preface before starting the reading. It truly helps me to understand whole point of view of the book and what the authors try to say through their writings.
*I make mental pictures*
*I identify confusing parts and reread them*
*I use pecctures, graphs, and charts to understand confusing parts*
*I identify unfamiliar words and use context clues figure out their meanings*
When reading the text in class, I mostly underlined key passages or starred important parts in all of the text. I find that doing this allows me to continue reading without having to stop and take notes. Being able to mark on the text makes it easier for me to go back through and find what I thought was important. If I did have to take notes later, I could just write down some of what I underlined. I thought in class that having the think marks was distracting because if I were using it as a during reading strategy, I were constantly trying to read, figure out what the question was about, then writing what I found, then reading some more, and it ended up getting too confusing. I also think that trying to take notes while reading can end up making it harder to understand what was just read. Therefore, by underlining or using the Coding Text method, the reader is able to mark the most important things yet still be able to keep reading straight through the text.
I believe that the most difficult during reading strategies for science text would be the think marks or summarizing. The think marks strategy can be difficult and confusing if used as a during reading strategy. It takes away from the focus needed to read some science texts straight through. Since science text is usually chockfull of information, summarizing can be difficult. If a paragraph contains 4 definitions with good examples, a student is going to want to use all of them in their summary. The summary may end up being just as long as the paragraph even if it is written in their own words. I think that if they were able to use the coding text strategy they would be able to see (after they have read all the way through) where they need to pay attention to as far as what they thought was most important or the most difficult.
I've chosen
*I think about the characters, settings, events, or new information*
*I skim to find details*
*I reread parts I enjoy*
To tell the truth, I 've never really considered about what I'm doing and what i'm supposed to do after reading. Especially, when it comes to read a text book or something that I read for studying, I just get relieved about the fact that I finished and I usually never look back. When I read novels or fiction in particular, however, I think about main characters, events, settings and so forth after reading. If I don't remember specific part such as the characters' names and the places that certain events were happened in the book, I skim to find these details. Frankly speaking, I don't reread the parts that I enjoy, but I thought about it. For example, if I were this guy, what would I do in this situation? something like this.
:::IS MY READING STRATEGIC??:::
Give the facts that I wrote above, I can't say that I'm a strategic reader. Considering my reading style, I am so focused on decoding and reading the text that I cannot go further to
understand the whole picture of what I read. I guess the reason why I'm having this problem is the lack of my post-reading strategies. There are other matters too, for sure. For example, I tend to read so fast that I have difficulty recalling what I had read. When I try to remember some parts of the text, I hardly tell chunks of it. Secondly, I also have problem with skimming while I read the text. It seems that I skim more parts of the book which is science text or some articles that requires specific prior knowledge for better understanding.
Needless to say, the things that I mentioned concern me. As I test L2 reading habits, it is kind of upsetting to see how I'm going through the motions of reading and identifyng confusing parts, and yet lacking a deep involvement with books and strategies to help me cope with parts of books that seem difficult.
However, it was a good chance to realize which part do I need to improve more in L2 reading. Additional strategies such as Rereading and Retelling the stories that I can use during and after reading will help my reading process more meaningful. These strategies would encourage my reflection, offer ways to deal with confusing passages in texts, and continue to myself to characters' lives and new information.
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