articles_id=53 If you are a student, pay attention to the before-reading activities so that you know which reading skills are being taught. You can then adjust your strategies to be prepared for the after-reading activities. The typical skills being taught are: Scanning (looking for specific information), skimming (trying to get an overall understanding of the text), detail (precision understanding of the text, and inference (reading between the lines).
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