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Introduction

  • Sandi Howell
    Coordinator, Workplace Education and PLAR
    Industry Training Partnerships
    Manitoba Advanced Education & Training
    (204) 945-1682
    showell@gov.mb.ca

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Reading Skills

  • main reading skills: skim, scan, find overall meaning, find details, synthesize, summarize, evaluatea
  • navigation is a process in which you use the four main reading skills

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Importance

  • "can’t read” actually may be “can’t navigate”
  • what people do in the workplace
  • Increases efficiency greatly
  • Increases independence

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Navigation Skills

  • understanding the structure or organization of a document
  • skimming to gain a general impression
  • setting questions/identifying key words and phrases (What am I being asked to find?)

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Workplace Process

diagram showing words: technical skills and essential skills

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Navigational Skills cont'd

  • making predictions
  • scanning to locate information /cycling through documents to find information
  • synthesizing (combining) and summarizing information to come up with an appropriate response (reading comprehension skills)
  • confirming