Types of Reading

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