Types of Reading Reading
choosing. Sometimes, the teacher will provide the outwitted possible answers to see the students understanding related to the presented
texts. 2
Assessment of Selective Reading skills a
Matching tasks Some tasks in this product are used matching tasks assessments. In
the developed materials, this task is used in identifying the parts of speech.
It is the simple task which asks students to respond correctly or match an appropriate format.
b Editing tasks
T his assessment is more appropriate to measure students’
grammatical errors. This technique is not only focus on grammar but also introduce a simulation of the authentic task of editing.
c Gap-filling tasks
This kind of task can be converted in the multiple choice tasks. The students are asked to write a word or phrase. Another option is to
create sentence completion items where the students read part of a sentence and then complete it by writing a phrase.
3 Assessment of interactive reading
a Impromptu reading plus comprehension questions
This is the most common technique in reading assessment. This assessment provides a passage then the students respond to questions.
These questions are not only about comprehension questions but also include some of effective reading strategies such as skimming for
main idea, scanning for details, guessing word meanings from context, inferencing, etc.
b Short – answer tasks
This is a common alternative to multiple-choice questions following reading passages. The students are provided a reading passage then
answer the questions in a sentence or two. The specifications are also related to comprehension questions and some of effective reading
skills. The product of this research also applied this assessment in some activities. Almost all of the evaluation parts in the developed
product used short – answer tasks. Nevertheless, sometimes there are
some combination between short-answer tasks and true-false questions.
c Scanning
This strategy is used to find related information in a text. The students are asked to find specific informations. Some of the scanning
objectives for each of the genres are to find: a date, name, or place in an article;
the setting for a narrative or story; the principal divisions of a chapter;
the principal research finding in a technical report; a result reported in a specified cell in a table;