Preview and Predicting

Previewing and Predicting

Previewing speed reading technique is defined as reding to get an overview of the reading material ( title, author, interpretation, type of reding and prediction about reading.

Predicting is ability to predict what will come by utilizing grammatical, logical and cultural clues. We can predict a reading content from the front cover image and the title as well as the synopsis on the back cover.

Purpose

• ·      To get some ideas of what to read
• ·       To get information faster
• ·       To follow the author’s ideas well
• ·       To encourage active reading do the learns can provide a text in order to predict it.

Is used to :

• ·      Text book
• ·       Picture of figures
• ·       Book cover
• ·       Maps
• ·       Chart

How to do a previewing

Start by reading :

• ·       The title and author details
• ·       The abstract / the synopsis
• ·       Then read only the part that “jump out” (main heading, subheading, summarize, highlight text).
• ·       Exemine any illustration, graphics, table diagram and their caption

Fiction or biography, readers look at the title, chapter heading, and illustrations for better understanding of the content and possible setting or events.

Non-fiction, readers look at text features and illustrations and their caption to determine subject matter and to recall prior knowledge, to decide what they know about the subject.

Previewing also helps readers figure out what they don’t know and what they want to final out

How to do a predicting

as we need, our eyes do not sweep in a steady movement across the print, rather, we move our eyes in jumps called “eye fixation movement”. We can scan a line, fixate a point to permit eye focus. “eye fixation movement” a major component of speed reading is fixation, a point where your eyes come to rest as you read. Readers who make fewer eye fixations read faster because they take in more words with each fixation. The number words you can process in an eye fixation depends on your vision span, your vocabulary, and your familiarity with what you’re reading.

Guidelines for previewing and predicting longer passages

• ·       Previewing for only a few seconds
• ·       Read the title
• ·       Decide what kind of text it is
• ·       Look at the length and organization of the passage
• ·       Notice of there are maps, picture, charts, names, dates, or number in the passage
• ·       Look at the first line or sentence of each paragraph and the last sentence of the final paragraph

Previewing and predicting benefit

• ·       Helps to assess the level of difficulty of a reading
• ·       Can take the essence of information from a reading text without having to read word for word
• ·       Increase the reading speed level

 

Conclusion

 Previewing and predicting is one of the speed reading techniques, where the reader can get am preview of a reading and can predict the contents of a reading that aims to get information quickly or find out an idea in the reading. This technique can be used in text book. Book cover, maps, etc. benefit from this technique is helps readers know the level of reading difficulty, can directly get reading information without reading word of word, and to improve speed reading skills.