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How to Teach Students the Dimensions of Reading Comprehension
Quest Faculty Development Workshop Series, Fall 2011
The Levels of Reading
Syntopical
Analytical
Inspectional
Elementary
The First Level of Reading: Elementary Reading
Readiness
Simplicity
Progress
Refinement and
Enhancement
The Second Level of Reading: Inspectional Reading
I. Systematic Skimming
• Title Page and Preface
• TOC• Index• Publisher’s
Blurb• Pivotal
Chapters• Final Pages
II. Superficial Reading
• Non-stop reading
The Third Level of Reading: Analytical Reading
What is the Book About?
What does the
Book Say?
How do we
criticize a book?
The First Stage: Finding What a Book is About
Classify
Summarize
Enumerate
Define
The Second Stage: Interpreting a Book’s Contents
Come to terms
Grasp
Know
Determine and Decide
The Third Stage: Criticizing a Book
Maxims
Suspend criticism
Disagree appropriately
Differentiate between
knowledge and personal
opinion
Criteria
Uninformed
Misinformed
Illogical
Incomplete