1. Steps in the Reading Process
Step 1 - Preview and make predictions
Step 2 - Identify the topics and check your predictions
Step 3 - Read closely
Step 4 - React to the text
Vocabulary Step - Dictionary work and Word forms
2. Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Step 1 -
Identify levels of specificity
Step 2 - Distinguish between main ideas, supporting details, organizational patterns, and possible irrelevant information in the text
Step 3 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Guess words in context
3. Facts and Opinions
Step 1 - Differentiate
between facts and opinions
Step 2 - Identify techniques of expressing opinions
Step 3 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Multiple-meaning words
4. Purpose and Audience of the Text
Step 1 - Identify the tone of the writer
Step 2 - Identify the purpose of the
text
Step 3 - Identify the genre and the audience of the text
Step 4 - Integrate the skills
Vocabulary Step - Summarize words
5. Research Article
Step 1 - Understand research article organization
Step 2 - Look for supporting information in a research article
Step 3 -
Integrate the skills
Step 4 - Research vocabulary
6. Steps in Practice
Teacher's Resource: Step Up to Academic Reading Companion Site
Marina Rozenberg has been an instructor of academic English skills at Simon Fraser University (SFU) since 2008. Before that, she taught college-level academic English for 12 years in Israel. She has held a number of other positions in ESL instruction and has developed curricula for SFU's
reading and vocabulary course, as well as for other courses.