3. WHAT ARE READING STRATEGIES?
• is the broad term used to
describe the planned and explicit
actions that help readers translate
print to meaning
4. 1. SCANNING
• Scanning involves looking only for
specific information (such as keywords,
numbers, names, etc.) while omitting other
details. If your purpose of reading is to
search for specific information that may be
somewhere a text or graph, scanning is
appropriate to use.
6. 2. SKIMMING
•Skimming involves reading to get the main
idea of the material before looking for
certain details that back it up. If your
purpose is to read quickly through a text to
gain an overview of its content, you are
going to use skimming strategy.
7. EXAMPLE :
•Joselito will be having a long
quiz the next day. He needs to
review the lessons discussed but
he doesn’t want to reread
everything.
8. 3. INTENSIVE
• Intensive reading involves learners reading in
detail with specific learning aims and tasks. If
you aim to read a text thoroughly to
understand and remember what you’ve read
and get the meaning of it, you are having the
intensive reading strategy.
9. EXAMPLE:
•Tonio picks a poem “To The Filipino
Youth” by Jose Rizal for him to
interpret. He translates every difficult
word, thinks about the meaning of it,
and relate with the poem and its
author.
10. 4.EXTENSIVE
•Extensive reading involves learners
reading texts for enjoyment and
developing general reading skills. If you
want to develop your independence,
comprehension, and general knowledge,
extensive reading is needed.
11. EXAMPLE:
• Ana loves reading novels, short stories, journals, magazines, and newspapers.
12. •____23. The door and the window
_______ stuck.
• A. is B. are
• C. has D. does
13. • ____24. Neither Mother nor Father _______ phoned.
• A. has B. have C. do D. does
• ____25. The dog or the cats ________ always howling.
• A. is B. are C. has D. have
