Reading skills
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Reading is an important skill that is essential for both academic and professional success. There are various techniques that can improve reading skills, including skimming to get the main ideas, scanning to find specific information quickly, and active reading techniques like underlining and taking notes. Poor reading can result from an inability to understand words, sentences, or how information is organized; or from a lack of interest or concentration. Developing good reading skills involves using strategies like surveying, questioning, reading actively while annotating, recalling what was read, and reviewing the material.
Reading skills
- 1. Reading Skills Hatesh Kumar Lecturer in English SMI University Karachi
- 2. Outline Reading Skills Purpose of Reading Reason for a poor Reading Techniques For Good Reading
- 3. Reading As An Acronym!
- 4. Reading Skills Reading skill is the ability to understand information presented in a written form. Effective reading skills are always essential in our academic as well as professional career. They are more necessary these days among the phenomenal advanced technology globalization , increasing cultural diversity , and adoption of team-based structures in work places. Time spent by professionals on communication activities on receiving information(listening and reading). Reading is as important as other communications skills. But most of us ignore importance of acquiring this communication skill involved in a receiving a broad spectrum of the messages .
- 5. Purpose of Reading Search For Information For General Comprehension Learn new Information Synthesize and Evaluate Information
- 6. Reason for a poor Reading Inability to understand a word Inability to understand a sentence. Inability to understand how sentence relate to one another. Inability to understand how the information put together in a meaningful way. Lack of interest or concentration.
- 7. Techniques For Good Reading 1. Skimming: Getting the gist of something Skimming is used to quickly gather the most important information. It’s not essential to understand each word when you are skimming. Run your eyes over the text, noting important information. Use skimming to quickly get up to speed on a current business situation.
- 8. How to Skim? Working quickly… 1. Read the title if there is one. 2. Read the introduction or the first paragraph if there is one. 3. Read the first sentence of every other paragraph. 4. Notice any pictures, charts, or graphs. 5. Notice any italicized or boldface words or phrases. 6. Read the summary or last paragraph if there is one. 7. Read for which audience the text was written. 8. Read a what type of text it is. 9. Read what the purpose of author is and the general content of the text.
- 9. Examples of Skimming: The Newspaper – to quickly get the general news of the day Magazines – to quickly discover which articles you would like to read in more detail Business and Travel Brochures – to quickly get informed
- 10. Scanning: To find specific information quickly. How to Scan 1. State the specific information you are looking for. 2. Try to anticipate how the answer will appear and what clues you might use to help you locate the answer. For example, if you were looking for a certain date, you would quickly read the paragraph looking only for numbers. 3. Use headings and any other aids that will help you identify which sections might contain the information you are looking for. 4. Selectively read and skip through sections of the passage.
- 11. Detailed Reading: For extracting information accurately Requires serious reading and proper note taking Uses the method of reading called SQ3R (Survey, Question, Reading, Recall, Review) This reading works well in research projects and academic study.
- 12. Intensive reading; Also called word-for-word type of reading Requires one to read materials related to his/her field of specialization The object of intensive reading demands a great deal of content-area reading.
- 13. Extensive reading Also called light-type of reading Reading for leisure You love what you read. longer texts for pleasure and needing global understanding
- 14. Active Reading Underlining and Highlighting Note Key Words Questions Summaries
- 15. Active Reading
- 16. Annotation Spend five minutes in groups of three decide and write down how you think best to annotate.
- 17. Annotation 1) Underlining- of major points, or important statements. 2) Vertical Lines at the Margin- To emphasize a statement already underlined or to point to a passage too long to be underlined. 3) Star, ASTERIK - to emphasize important passages in the book 4) NUMBER or LETTERS in the Margin- to indicate a sequence of points made by the author. 5) NUMBERS of OTHER PAGES- to indicate places where the author made similar points, or contradictions, to tie up ideas in the book. 6) CIRCLE- key words or phrases 7) WRITING in the MARGIN- to ask questions (?) to indicate a note to yourself.
- 18. A Tip For Speeding Up Your Active Reading SQ3R Survey- Question Read Recall Review
- 19. Thank You