Reading skills
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This document discusses different types of reading skills. It categorizes reading skills into three main categories: according to purpose, according to reading performance/rate of understanding, and according to reading instruction programs. Some key reading skills discussed include skimming, scanning, intensive reading, extensive reading, speed reading, shared reading, guided reading, fluency reading, independent reading, and strategic reading. The document provides definitions and explanations of these various reading skills.
Reading skills
- 1. ASSIGNMENT OF COMMUNICATION ON READING SKILLS Submitted by Umair Ahmad to Miss Sobia
- 3. Reading; • Reading is a process of retrieving the meaning of stored information or ideas. • The action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud: "suggestions for further reading"; "reading skills". • Written or printed matter that can be read: "his main reading was detective stories".
- 4. Reading skills; • Reading skills enable readers to turn writing into meaning and achieve the goals of reading independence, comprehension, and fluency. If reading skills appear to be lacking, then a reading skills assessment is recommended
- 5. • To acquire knowledge • Reading helps in mental development • Improvement of conversational skills • Helps readers to decipher new words • Developing vocabulary, language skills • If the reader don't know anything about a subject, then it will be difficult for him to grab the information.
- 6. THE WAY TO UNDERSTAND READING: Two ways: • 1. calling words – ability to recognize word structures • 2. understand words – ability to understand the meaning within the context of the words One does not exist without the other.
- 8. Hare are basic three ways to classify reading skills; Reading according to purpose According to reading performance According to Reading Instruction Program
- 9. 1. READING ACCORDING TO PURPOSE.
- 10. 1. READING ACCORDING TO PURPOSE.
- 11. 1(B). SCANNING • Look for specific information in the text • It makes you “skip more than you read.” • Also called search reading
- 12. Scanning - looking for a particular piece of information
- 13. 1.(A) SKIMMING; • General understanding of the whole text • Fastest type of reading based on purpose • Also called rapid-survey reading
- 14. Skimming - running the eyes over quickly, to get the gist
- 15. 1(C).DETAILED STUDY READING; • 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.
- 16. 1(D). 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.
- 17. 1(F). EXTENSIVE READING - • Also called light-type of reading • Reading for leisure • You love what you read. • longer texts for pleasure and needing global understanding
- 18. 1(G).LITERATURE READING • Not mainly for pleasure… but • Intends to familiarize readers with different genres of literature pieces: novels, short stories, biographies, dramas, epics, etc…
- 19. 2. ACCORDING TO READING PERFORMANCE /RATE OF UNDERSTANDING
- 20. 2. ACCORDING TO READING PERFORMANCE /RATE OF UNDERSTANDING
- 21. 2(A).SPEED READING; • Information tends to stay superficially in one’s mind. • Not a good method if your objective is to gain a deeper understanding of the text
- 22. SUBVOCALIZED READING; • One recognizes the form of the word and internally sounds it in the mind the way one pronounces it as a spoken word. • Focuses primarily on the form, stress, intonation, phrasing of the language • This prevents one from quick reading and comprehension of the text.
- 23. PROOFREADING • To see typographical errors • Proofreading vs. editing
- 24. SPE (STRUCTURE PROPOSITION EVALUATION); • Three stages 1.Recognizing language structures 2.Making inferences 3.Evaluation of ideas, reasons, or conclusions • Judgment is withheld until the text is fully understood.
- 25. MI (MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES); • Enhances not only analytical intelligence but practical intelligence as well 1.Musical intelligence 2.Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence 3.Spatial intelligence 4.Interpersonal intelligence 5.Intrapersonal intelligence
- 26. 3. ACCORDING TO READING- INSTRUCTION PROGRAM
- 28. 1.READ ALOUD • Many teachers use this in instruction. • Students will learn good expressions, proper pacing, and correct pronunciation.
- 29. SHARED READING; • Both the teacher and student take turns in reading portions of the text. • It is also called as group reading. • Enhance IQ level. • It is necessary for students
- 30. GUIDED READING • Reader is left alone to do silent reading. • But the reader is motivated by the teacher by various strategies. using contextual clues, examining illustrations, activating schemata • Reader is not totally left alone.
- 31. FLUENCY READING; • Main objective: To gain mastery of the Pronunciation, Phrasing, Pausing, Intonation, Stress of the text. • Progress: measured by the number of words one can read aloud and comprehensions Qs answered correctly.
- 32. INDEPENDENT READING • One chooses the material s/he wants to read. • Still, the teacher helps you become an independent reader by surrounding your with interesting reading materials.
- 33. DEVELOPMENTAL READING • Aims to refine one’s reading comprehension skills by letting reader experience different reading stages: 1.Reading readiness in the nursery and kindergarten level 2.Beginning reading in Grades 1 and 2 3.Rapid growth in Grades 3 and 4 4.Refining and widening reading in the intermediate, HS, college level, and beyond the tertiary level
- 34. SELECTIVE OR KEY-WORD READING • Characterized by skimming and scanning • Mainly focuses on a specific or principal portion of the text to have a general view or holistic understanding of the reading material
- 35. REMEDIAL READING • One submits himself/herself to a reading program that will give him/her special reading sessions under the guidance of a reading specialist. • This requires one to reflect on thoughts. • If a reader lags behind with regard to his vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension abilities, and reading attitudes, he must submit himself to a reading program that gives special reading sessions under the guidance of a reading specialist.
- 36. STRATEGIC READING • Regarded by some as the latest type of reading • Thinking aloud about what you reading or thinking of • You read with your eyes, but you also verbalize what you think about the text, thus, letting your mind focus on the correct responses to the questions about the passage. • Also called as meta-cognitive, meta-thinking, meta-reading, or meta- comprehension • Requires a reader to be alert, awake, and active • A reader uses or practices HOTS (higher-order thinking skills)