TIPS ON READING
Successful reading involves
1. using words attack skills such as identifying sound/symbol correspondences;
2. using grammatical knowledge to recover meaning, for example interpreting non-finite clauses;
3. using different techniques for different purposes, for example skimming and scanning for key words or information;
4. relating text content to one’s own background knowledge of the subject at hand;
5. identifying the rhetorical or functional intention of individual sentences or text segments, for example recognizing when the writer is offering a definition or a summary even when theses are not explicitly signaled by phrases such as ‘X may be defined as…’.
From Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom by David Nunan, P35.