Read the title of the article.
Another step to becoming a skilled media interpreter and communicator involves the use of prereading strategies to quickly and efficiently determine whether a longer work is worth your time. Prereading is an important step for distinguishing useful from useless content. It also strengthens your understanding of the useful content once you make the decision to read it fully—mostly by allowing yourself to predict what information the writing will contain.
This module introduced you to several reading strategies—one that focuses on the first section of an article and one that requires you to identify the topic sentence in each paragraph. See if you can correctly order the steps in each strategy.
Use the W and S keys to move arrange the items up or down.
Read the complete first paragraph of the article.
Read the complete second paragraph of the article.
Decide whether the article contains information you’re likely to need.
Good Job!
Use the W and S keys to move arrange the items up or down.
Read the title of the article.
Read the first sentence of the first paragraph of the article.
Read the first sentence of the second paragraph of the article.
Read the first sentence of the rest of the article’s paragraphs.
Decide whether the article contains information you’re likely to need.
Good Job!
