Pre-reading- Surveying
Paraphrasing- Reading
Summarizing- Post-reading
Prereading, Reading, and Review.
Prereading, Reading, and Review
Prereading activities can provide context, activate prior knowledge, and enhance comprehension. Engaging in activities such as skimming, predicting, and brainstorming before reading can help students make connections and prepare them to better understand the material.
Eileen Haller has written: 'A study of the effect of prereading instruction on reading comprehension'
In the pre-reading phase you will try to get a better understanding to what you are reading by analyzing the title , picture (if any) and also seeing if anything looks familiar.
Before reading a text, you can use the 5 W's (who, what, when, where, why) to gather background information. Identify the author (who), the main topic (what), the time period (when), the setting (where), and the purpose of the text (why) to help orient yourself and set the context for understanding the material.
The three steps to pre-reading are previewing the material by skimming headings and subheadings, generating questions about the content, and activating prior knowledge related to the topic.
First of all, the student should read the subject to get a good lead of the essay. Then, he should browse through the pages without actually reading line by line, this helps to get a general gist of the topic to be studied. The third and most important stage is reading through carefully and making notes were one thinks requires more stress.