Improving reading effectiveness
Improving reading efficiency
Improving reading comprehension
Final thoughts
PRACTICE CHAPTERS
Approaching academic texts
Improving reading effectiveness: predicting, purposeful reading
Improving reading efficiency: skimming, scanning
Improving reading efficiency: understanding vocabulary in context
Improving reading comprehension: mind mapping
Improving reading comprehension: marking up the text and dialogic journals
Improving reading comprehension: identifying author’s purpose and functions of the text
Improving reading comprehension: recognising the topic and main idea
Improving reading comprehension: making inferences
Mastering academic reading 1
Mastering academic reading 2
Mastering academic reading 3
Mastering academic reading 4
Mastering academic reading 5
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: identifying information; identifying writer’s views/claims
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: matching information
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: multiple choice
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: matching headings
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: matching sentence endings
Test-taking strategies for academic reading: summary, note, table, flow-chart completion
APPENDIXES
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
GLOSSARY