Brief Introduction of Reading Reading Techniques #Knowledge For All

1. READING
KNOWLEDGE FORALL

2. Types of Reading Techniques
 Skimming
 Scanning
 Intensive Reading
 Extensive Reading

3. SKIMMING
■ Literally ‘skimming’ means taking off cream from the milk
■ For getting the main ideas
■ Reading selectively
■ Purpose = To gain overview in order to identify main points
■ Reasons of skimming
To decide whether the text is worth reading
To save time

4. ■ Technique:
Read the blurb, preface and table of contents
Focus on subheadings, bold, italicized, underlined words, graphs, charts
Search for topic sentences
Read title and other headings
Read summaries
■ Skimming can be done at 1000 words per minute.
■ Indirect Advantage: Improves reading speed.
■ Skimming saves time

5. SCANNING
■ Literally ‘scanning’ means discovering the place of something.
■ To get specific fact or piece of information.
■ Purpose: To locate specific bits of information
■ Technique:
Look at headings, bold words, names, numbers, capital letters, dates.
■ Scanning can be used to find particular words in dictionary, numbers in
telephone directory, etc.
■ Easiest way is to scan text by looking specific words

6. INTENSIVE READING
■ Also called ‘Study Reading’
■ Close and deep reading
■ Purpose = To get full understanding of the text
■ Technique:
Paying attention to every detail
Noticing punctuation, sentences, paragraphs and grammar
■ Intensive Reading takes time.
■ Reading recipes, applications, notices, written instructions, question papers
are examples of intensive reading.

7. EXTENSIVE READING
■ Reading longer texts
■ Reading for pleasure
■ Done in spare time
■ Reading with one’s own control
■ Extensive reading gives chance to the reader to read with to the speed he
likes.
■ Example of extensive reading is novel writing.