reading level assessment
August 19, 2020

Test- Taking Reading Strategies

Reading strategies is your tool for life. You need it from an early age all the way to adult life.  Reading is complex. And the way you read depends on your purpose.  We have reading for pleasure and reading for the test when you are under time pressure.

When you read for a test, you need to learn the content, the format and test language.  Main idea, inference, drawing conclusions, summarizing and other reading skills will look different based on the genre.  Narrative genre or the literary texts have a different text structure and organization compared to expository texts.  When you try to find a main idea in narrative, it will look different when you try to find a main idea in expository. 

Have you noticed the reading strategies that you are doing when reading for pleasure?  It is obviously way different than the strategies that you need to be doing when reading under time pressure, or when reading for a test.