Basic Reading Skills
Objectives - Participants will be able to:
Critical Reading
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Use guidelines to become critical readers
- Use critical reading skills to help in the problem-solving process
Reading for Information
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Identify some key reading strategies for building reading comprehension
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Identify the main idea in a text
- Identify context clues, such as prefixes and suffixes that will aid in comprehension
Reading on the Job
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Understand the purpose of an employee handbook and policy manual
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Use a table of contents and an index to find answers more efficiently
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Find the main idea more quickly
- Transfer procedures from a paragraph to a step-by-step process
Reading to Check Information
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Recognize masked messages in job-related documents
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Make comparisons between documents using a five-step process
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Check their work against workplace standards
- Look for cause-and-effect situations in their job
Reading to Follow Directions
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Simplify written directions into small, more manageable pieces
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Use more effective measures to read memos, letters and other key documentation specific to job performance
- Define their purpose when reading directions to follow them more effectively