Reading skills & kinds (2)
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This document discusses different reading skills and types of reading. It outlines 11 reading skills: scanning, skimming, noting details, making inferences, predicting outcomes, drawing conclusions, making comparisons and contrasts, sensing cause and effect relationships, distinguishing fact from opinion, and 5 types of reading: exploratory reading, analytic reading, critical reading, extensive reading, and intensive reading. Each skill and type is defined and an example is provided.
Reading skills & kinds (2)
- 1. READING SKILLS ENGN01G/COMN01A MS. LAARNI V. PEREZ
- 2. 1. SCANNING • Rapid reading assisted by key words: locate pieces of info • What, who where, when, how • Examples: • Looking for a word meaning in the dictionary • Getting a docu from the filing cabinet • Looking through the yellow pages
- 3. 2. SKIMMING • Rapid reading focusing on the TITLE, HEADINGS, TOPIC SENTENCE, SIGN POSTS to get the main idea • Examples: • Surveying a chapter/article • Reviewing something you’ve read • Choosing a magazine/book to buy in the bookstore
- 4. 3. NOTING DETAILS • Factual reading, directly concerned with remembering items in the selection • Called as such bec. you write down or take into memory • Examples: • For stories – chars, settings, etc. • For essays - facts
- 5. 4. MAKING INFERENCES • Making educated GUESS based on available info read or observed • Sensing relas. not stated but implied by the author • CAVEAT: don’t jump into inaccurate conclusions • Examples: getting meaning of words through context clues, or the main idea, inferring feeling
- 6. 5. PREDICTING OUTCOMES • Intelligent GUESSING of future behavior/actions based on present or past actions/behaviors, tendencies, or based on facts • Examples: • Predicting a possible ending of a novel • Predicting the reaction of your mom when she sees your card
- 7. 6. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS • Giving JUDGMENT based on written materials/observed facts • CAVEAT: Your statement must consist of factual EVIDENCES to support it. • Examples: • Drawing conclusions fr. read academic/technical writing • What you can say abt P-Noy regarding the case of the terrorism that happened
- 8. 7. MAKING COMPARISON AND CONTRAST • Reading that focuses on the similarities & differences of RELEVANT DETAILS in a text or RELEVANT DETAILS in 1 text compared & contrasted to details of another text • Examples: • Comparing and contrasting the artificial intelligences in A.I. Movie with that of the Terminator movie
- 9. 8. SENSING CAUSE & EFFECT RELATIONSHIP • C-E relationship describes something that happens (effect) and why it happens (cause) • Ex. Our basketball team lost the championship game because our star player got sick.
- 10. 9. DISTINGUISHING FACT FR. OPINION • When engaged in critical reading, it is a must to learn to evaluate the material you read; you must be able to distinguish bet. Fact and Opinion. • Fact – verifiable truth • Opinion – personal belief or judgment, w/out actual proof of its truth • Ex. Stars are actually suns.
- 11. KINDS OF READING • According to purpose & manner of comprehending
- 13. 3. EXPLORATORY READING • Aims to get a fairly accurate picture of a whole presentation of ideas; how the whole selection is presented • Allots more time for reading • Examples: • Long articles in mags., short stories, descriptive texts
- 14. 4. ANALYTIC READING • Demands careful attention to each word & its importance in relation to other words in the sentence or parag. • Examples: • Reading mathematical problems, scientific formulas, and certain definitive statements of key ideas that require a questioning/inquisitive mind
- 15. 6. CRITICAL READING • Reader stops to consider the facts carefully, “take time to read in order to the get facts straight” • Examples: • Reading done in periodicals, books, ads which are loaded with propaganda devices designed to sway opinions
- 16. 7. EXTENSIVE READING Reading in your own pace for leisure 8. RECREATIONAL/LEISURE READING
- 17. 9. INTENSIVE READING Serious, IN-DEPTH reading for research work or a report 10. STUDY READING
- 18. 11. DEVELOPMENTAL READING • When a reader is under a comprehensive reading program that lets him go through stages & monitors him closely • Examples: • SRA • ARC