Chapter 2 - The Levels of Reading Flashcards
What are the four, cumulative, levels of reading?
- Elementary Reading
- Inspectional Reading
- Analytical Reading
- Syntopical Reading
The four levels of reading are cumulative because
The higher levels include the lower ones
Elementary reading is the first level of reading that teaches
the basics of reading literacy or rudimentary reading in the art of reading, and is taught in elementary school
The question asked while reading at the Elementary level is
• what are the words and what does the sentence say? In the simplist form related to recognizing the language.
Inspectional reading is the second level of reading that is concerned with
the best reading you can do within a relatively short amount of time
Inspectional reading is the art of
skimming systematically, examining at a
surface level
The question asked while reading at the Inspectional level is
“What is this book about?”
and “What is the structure or parts of this book?”
Analytical reading is the third level of reading that is concerned with
an intensely active thorough and complete reading in an unlimited amount of time, while asking many organized questions of the book
Francis Bacon - “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
Analytical reading is
Chewing and digesting a book
Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding and is not necessary for which goals/kinds of reading?
when reading for information or entertainment
Syntopical reading is the fourth and highest level of reading that is concerned with
the most complex and systematic reading involving comparative reading of many books and constructing an analysis of the subject that may not be in any of the books.
