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2 . R e a d i n g s t r a t e g i e s
Summarizing also encourages a student to supervise his/her own understanding (Winne
and Hadwin, 1998) 11 .
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Prediction
The essence of this strategy is the reader’s expectation. While using it, we ask a lot of
questions, e.g. What to expect from a book entitled Awakening? Or How would this story
continue?
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Scanning the text
Scanning the text is a simple and useful strategy which helps us familiarize ourselves to a
new book. By scanning the pages, we are getting an insight into the content, function
and purpose of the book.
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Cooperative learning
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12 Visinko,
K. Čitanje, poučavanje i učenje. Zagreb ꞉ Školska knjiga, 2014., str. 116.
Cooperative learning is about collaboration which helps to better understand the
learning content, reading and working on the text and it also contributes to development
of social competence. The readers’ interaction results in mutual reading supervision and
mutual understanding of the meaning, activating a few systems of previous knowledge
and affects the confidence while reading. For successful cooperative learning it is
important to divide the students into smaller groups where each member will
understand what his responsibility is and why 12 .
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