Chapter 2 - The Levels of Reading

Question 1

What are the four, cumulative, levels of reading?

Answer 1

1. Elementary Reading
2. Inspectional Reading
3. Analytical Reading
4. Syntopical Reading

Question 2

The four levels of reading are cumulative because

Answer 2

The higher levels include the lower ones

Question 3

Elementary reading is the first level of reading that teaches

Answer 3

the basics of reading literacy or rudimentary reading in the art of reading, and is taught in elementary school

Question 4

The question asked while reading at the Elementary level is

Answer 4

• what are the words and what does the sentence say? In the simplist form related to recognizing the language.

Question 5

Inspectional reading is the second level of reading that is concerned with

Answer 5

the best reading you can do within a relatively short amount of time

Question 6

Inspectional reading is the art of

Answer 6

skimming systematically, examining at a

surface level

Question 7

The question asked while reading at the Inspectional level is

Answer 7

“What is this book about?”

and “What is the structure or parts of this book?”

Question 8

Analytical reading is the third level of reading that is concerned with

Answer 8

an intensely active thorough and complete reading in an unlimited amount of time, while asking many organized questions of the book

Question 9

Francis Bacon - “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

Analytical reading is

Answer 9

Chewing and digesting a book

Question 10

Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding and is not necessary for which goals/kinds of reading?

Answer 10

when reading for information or entertainment

Question 11

Syntopical reading is the fourth and highest level of reading that is concerned with

Answer 11

the most complex and systematic reading involving comparative reading of many books and constructing an analysis of the subject that may not be in any of the books.