ELT365 · Day 159 — Skimming
Idea — Skimming is reading rapidly for the general idea — a fast tour of the text, not detailed comprehension. Example — Running your eye over…
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ELT365 · Day 158 — Scanning
Idea — Scanning means moving quickly across a text to find specific information without reading every word. Readers use visual cues: numbers, proper nouns, keywords. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 157 — The Detail Task
Idea — A detail task demands specific information — facts, figures, names, sequences. It comes after the gist task, never before. Example — ‘How much did…
ReadELT365 · Day 156 — The Gist Task
Idea — The gist task sets one global question, answered by reading or listening to the whole text once. It trains reading-for-the-main-idea, not detail. Example —…
ReadELT365 · Day 155 — Schema Theory in Reading
Idea — A schema is a mental framework of existing knowledge. Activating schema before reading speeds up comprehension and reduces the cost of unknown vocabulary. Example…
ReadELT365 · Day 154 — Bottom-Up Processing
Idea — Bottom-up processing builds meaning from individual sounds, words, and sentences upward — decoding first, inference second. Example — A learner hears ‘bi-cy-cle’ and constructs…
ReadELT365 · Day 153 — Top-Down Processing
Idea — Top-down processing means using prior knowledge, context, and prediction to understand a text. The reader or listener moves from the general to the specific.…
ReadELT365 · Day 152 — What Is a Receptive Skill?
Idea — Receptive skills are reading and listening — language comes in. Learners decode meaning without producing output, but active processing is still required. Example —…
ReadEnglish Tip · 10 — Word Stress — English Rhythm in Three Rules
English is stress-timed: stressed syllables carry meaning; unstressed ones blur. Getting stress wrong changes how you are understood. Examples REcord (noun) vs reCORD (verb) Words ending…
ReadEnglish Tip · 09 — Building Vocabulary — Three Strategies That Work
Three approaches consistently build vocabulary faster than lists alone: learning in context, using spaced repetition, and noticing words in natural language. Examples Don’t learn ‘ambiguous’ from…
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