Master the skills and strategies you need for a deep understanding of text in this free online deep reading course. Take your reading skills to the next level with this course on ‘deep reading’. Find out how to select and apply techniques appropriate to the purpose of reading each particular text. In addition, you will learn how to apply the metacognitive process consciously and practise a skilled approach to comprehending and constructing meaning from text. Also called ‘slow reading’, this deep approach will enrich and enhance your reading experience.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201677 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Explain the importance of prior knowledge when reading a text • Describe the use of the ‘K-W-L-H’ chart to guide your learning • Distinguish pre-reading strategies appropriate to the text to be read • Identify the textual structural factors to consider when reading a text • Select appropriate post-reading strategies to consolidate your learning • Describe bottom-up, top-down and interactive reading approaches • Identify the metacognitive skills involved in reading • Contrast skimming and scanning techniques • Explain the construction and use of the word ‘bank’ • Compare and contrast vocabulary mapping structures • Describe the text-summarizing process |
| Course Code | 4461 |
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