Journal

A: Click the first hyperlink below "Reading Strategy Checklist." Think back your L2 reading habit and mark the strategies you usually use. Write about your reading strategy patterns. Is your reading strategic? how much? why or why not?

Before Reading
*I think about the cover, title, and what I know about the topic (my prior knowledge).
*I skim, looking at and thinking about illustrations, photos, graphs, and charts.
*I read headings and captions.

During Reading
*I make mental pictures.
*I identify confusing parts and reread them.
*I use pictures, graphs, and charts to understand confusing parts.
*I identify unfamiliar words and use context clues figure out their meanings.
After Reading
I didn't check anythings.

I usually look over a text, a title and image or graph before reading. If the topic of a text is a familiar to me, i try to remember knowledge that is relevant to topic and i already have knew. And then, i concentrate on interpret or understand a text during reading. I think my reading is not strategic. 'Strategy' means that strategy is a general plan or set of plans intended to achieve something. But in my case, i usually don't set up goal or any object. That is, i'm not use pattern to achive a goal. I just focus on reading. So, i don't have any activity after reading. Because i just am satisfied with reading, and interpreting.