Types of Reading

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Across
  1. 1. Knowing words' meanings
  2. 3. Priming the cognitive pump in order to recall relevant prior knowledge and experiences
  3. 4. Engaging in learning dialogues with text through question answering
  4. 7. Reading quickly for the main idea, looking at headings and summaries.
  5. 8. Fiction, comics, and magazines often read for fun!
  6. 11. Textbooks, news, and articles often read to gain facts
  7. 13. Searching rapidly for specific data like names, dates, or keywords.
  8. 15. Searching a variety of sources in order to select appropriate information to answer questions
  9. 17. Understanding letters and sounds
  10. 19. Bringing together what is spoken (written) in the text, what is unwritten in the text, and what is already known
  11. 20. Close, detailed analysis of short texts for deep comprehension.
Down
  1. 2. Evaluating a text, questioning arguments, and analyzing facts
  2. 5. Restating the meaning of text in one’s own words
  3. 6. Understanding a text's meaning
  4. 9. Reading longer texts (novels, magazines) for pleasure and general understanding
  5. 10. Involves inference, analysis, and connecting to background knowledge
  6. 12. Reading smoothly and accurately
  7. 14. Silent reading (faster, quiet) or Oral/Loud reading (for practice or performance
  8. 16. Thinking about how and what one is reading, both during and after the act of reading, for purposes of determining if one is comprehending the text
  9. 18. Constructing a mental image for the purpose of extracting meaning from the text