Reading involves decoding text through understanding words, phrases, sentences and symbols. The purpose of reading can be to gather information, for pleasure, or to find specific details. Effective reading requires matching one's strategy, such as skimming or close reading, to one's goal, like overall comprehension or locating specific facts. Reading skills like using indexes can aid in finding targeted details within books.

2. WHAT IS READING?
“Reading is a process of decoding
information in a text”

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4.  It involves your ability to read and
understand the words, phrases and
sentences and other symbols or visuals in a
text
 It may be for gathering information, for
pleasure, for overall understanding, or
sometimes for a few items of specific
information
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Reading Strategy :
You do not read the contents from cover
to cover. Instead, you go to the specific
page on which there is information ,
quickly run through and locate the
specific item(s) of information.
Purpose of Reading :
Reading to get a few specific items of
Information.
Example :
Look up some specific information in a
dictionary, encyclopedia, a product
manual, a brochure or other reference
resources.

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Reading Strategy :
You read fast, often skipping words, sentences,
sometimes even paragraphs that are not important and
try and get an overall understanding of the text.
Purpose of Reading :
Reading for an overall understanding of a text.
Example :
Reading a story, a newspaper, a film review, a
description, etc

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Reading Strategy :
Purpose of Reading :
Example :

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Reading Strategy :
Purpose of Reading :
Example :

10. you should be able to employ
the most appropriate
reading strategy that
matches your purpose of
reading.
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11.  The index is an alphabetical list at the end of
a book that provides the page number on
which a subject, name of an author/scientist,
etc are found
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12.  All reading is Purposeful
 It helps to have a clear idea about what you
are looking for.
 You will then be able to choose the right
book.
 It also help you to locate the most useful part
of a book that you could consult
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