English 102 Email Form Levels of Reading . All rights reserved.
L ike other human activities, reading is a complex, multi-leveled phenomenon.
If you ask me to read something, say a fable like Cinderella for example, there are a number of question you could ask of me, questions that would elicit information from different levels of my reading experience. I am able to summarize content and have read the story adequately at that level. T his is the level of reading that is most easy to test by the way. We have all taken standardized reading tests before, I'm sure, in which we had to read a paragraph and answer questions about the meaning of certain key words, or choose a title of the paragraph from a list of suggestions. Such tests measure our ability to get content from the material we read.