This document provides guidance on reading skills for students. It discusses various reading strategies and techniques including skimming, scanning, understanding text structure, identifying the author's viewpoint, determining word meanings, and summarizing. Specific techniques covered include using non-verbal cues, analyzing paragraph structure, understanding punctuation, making predictions, and inferring the author's perspective. The document stresses the importance of reading comprehension for both academic and professional success.

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2. Reading Skill

3. Reading is one the most important
academic task faced by students; it is
equally important in the commercial
working world.
The purpose of reading is to connect the
ideas on the page to what you already
know.

4. 1. Skimming and Scanning
2. Non-verbal signals
3. Structure of the text
4. Structure of paragraphs
5. Punctuation
6. Author’s viewpoint
7. Reader anticipation: determining the
meaning of words
8. summarizing

5.  Before starting to read a text in detail, you
should take a moment to preview the text.
 Read quickly, without pausing to study the
details . This is called skim reading or
skimming.
 After having skimmed the text , you can study
it in more detail , reading more slowly and
carefully and looking for specific information
that you are interested in . This is called
scanning.

6. The meaning of a text is not only conveyed
by means of words . All texts also contain
non-verbal signs.
Non-verbal signs may include certain style
features , such as different fonts , bold
print , underlining , or italics.
The meaning of these style feature can
vary from one to another text to another.

7.  Most texts start with a title and sometimes a
subtitle .
 After that comes the introduction and the body ,
followed by a conclusion or summary.
 An important aspect of reading is prediction.
 The better you can predict what you are going to
read, the faster and more effective you will read.
 The prediction process begins with the title.
 The conclusion sums up and puts the subjects
matter in the right perspective.

8. A typical paragraph consists of three parts.
 The first sentence contains the topic sentence
, which is the heart of the paragraph.
 The topic sentence contains the new aspect
of the subject of the text .
 The second part of the paragraph contains
sentences which develop the aspect.
 The last sentence of a paragraph is often a
summary of the paragraph of a linking
sentence to the next paragraph.

9. Punctuation is partly based on grammar.
For example , commas are often used to
separate causes.
Punctuation marks also indicate how the
author wants you to interpret a piece of
text.
For example, if the author puts something
in brackets, that part of the sentence
should be interpreted as an addition to the
sentence.

10.  In a reading text you make inferences or
assumption about the position of the author .
 The author can add words like luckily and
unfortunately to show approval or
displeasure.
 The author can also reveal his view point by
adding value to a word for example, if
something is big he may use the word huge
or gigantic to indicate that he is not impressed
.

11. Even readers who have a wide and flexible
vocabulary will encounter words whose
meaning they do not know point
You may have often come across a not too
familiar word whose meaning you where
able to guess accurately.

12.  It is very difficult to remember the complete
contents of long text for that reason it is
often advisable to make notes of essential
information in the text.
The length of the summery largely
depends on the density of the text.
The average length of a good summery is
about one –third of the original text but
summaries of detailed texts may be longer.