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Reading: Pre-reading Strategies

This is a study guide aimed at teachers and high-level students. It looks at pre-reading strategies and skills such as using existing knowledge about a topic. It also explains the rationale behind pre-reading activities that students are sometimes asked to do, and suggests ways to access, organize and increase prior knowledge of a topic.

Finding the main ideas in texts

Helpful reading strategies including topics such as finding the main idea in a text.

University of Leeds: Skills@Library: Reading skills

A link to the Skills@Library from the University of Leeds, offering help with topics such as speed reading and interpreting titles.

University of New South Wales: Paraphrasing, Summarising and Quoting

Help and advice on paraphrasing, summarising and quoting from the University of South Wales.

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