The 4 Reading Levels: Different Ways To Read Different Books | TCR
The difference in reading for information and reading for understanding is like the difference between simply knowing the name of something and actually understanding it in the context of the real world.
Each of these reading levels has the characteristics of the previous one, and builds on it, till you get to level 4. So syntopic reading (level 4) includes characteristics of elementary reading (level 1), but it doesn’t apply vice-versa. So let’s see what these reading levels look like, shall we?
Elementary reading is the basic, rudimentary level of reading. It is the one you learn at school. The main question this level of reading is trying to answer is “What does the sentence say?”
When you are trying to learn a foreign language, you are using elementary reading – you actually don’t understand what is being written and you simply see black stains on a white background, trying to understand the individual words being written there.
An example would be if I just started to write in my native jezik pa ti onda ne bi ništa mogao razumjeti i sve bi ti ove riječi izgledale kao hijeroglifi.
