Reading comprehension strategies
What Reading comprehension strategies means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Strategies are generally more easily applied in reading than in listening, as reading offers more opportunities to slow down, look at unknown items at some leisure and study the context.
If you are stuck on an Italian word containing '-tt-' in a reading passage, try swapping the '-tt-' for '-pt-' to see if an English cognate emerges.
When faced with a long, unfamiliar Italian verb ending in '-ificare' in a reading text, replace the ending with '-ify' to guess its English meaning.
When you see an unfamiliar Italian noun containing an 'f', try replacing it with 'ph' in your head to see if it resembles an English word.
When you encounter an unfamiliar noun ending in '-zione' in a reading text, think of the English '-tion' equivalent to guess its meaning.
Skimming a text to determine its general meaning and context, and scanning it to locate specific details such as names, places or times.
Topics that use Reading comprehension strategies
- Reading: understand and respond to written language (AQA GCSE)
- Using common patterns between Italian and English - Nouns (AQA GCSE)
- Using common patterns within Italian (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adjectival agreement
- Adjective agreement
- Noun gender and number
- Suffixes and word formation
- Vocabulary building
- Vocabulary building strategies
- Vocabulary deduction strategies
- Adapted literary extracts
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