This document discusses different reading techniques. It explains that there are different purposes for reading, such as for pleasure, specific information, or absorbing information. It provides tips for each purpose, such as reading more rapidly for pleasure versus taking time to absorb information. The document also provides general tips for improving reading skills, such as ensuring good eye health and reading posture. It emphasizes that reading speed should match the reading purpose.
2. Introduction
Successful Business and Professional people
spend much of their time reading all types of
material, books, magazines, notices,
bulletins, reports, memorandums, letters that
provide essential information to perform their
jobs. Therefore, the greater your reading
skill, the better equipped you will be to
succeed in your chosen career.
3. Purpose-Reading Technique
When you determine why you are reading a piece of information, you
can better determine how you should read.
Purposes of Reading
-Reading for pleasure
-Reading for Specific information
-Reading to absorb information
-Reading for accuracy
4. READING FOR PLEASURE
When reading for pleasure, you do not need
to absorb every detail, remember every fact
or read critically.
You can read novels, biographies or
magazines at a rapid rate.
5. When looking for specific material,
we should visually jump over large
portions or we move our eyes rapidly
down a page to make a best use of
our time.
6. Students are required to read to absorb
information. We read for meaning and
remember what we read. We take time to
absorb and digest the information.
7. When we read for accuracy, we require
concentration and attention. Most people do
this type of reading on their jobs. Careful
reading is required to verify invoices, letters,
memos.
8. To improve our reading skills, we need to:
check if our eyes are in good condition.
after reading for a lot of time, we need to
rotate our eyes slowly or look to the distance
or close our eyes for a few minutes.
Indirect lighting and no glaring light bulbs for
reading.
Sit comfortably and in a well ventilated room
free from distracting sounds or sights.
9. The purpose of reading also determine the
speed.
Suggestions:
-Read in “Units of thoughts”, Read the entire
phrase
-Keep eyes moving from left to right
Keep lips and tongue motionless
-Read word beginnings
-Keep building vocabulary
-Constantly Practice
10. The suggestions to improve reading
comprehension as well as the ability to
remember something are:
-Think as you read: relate what is read to what
is known. Become a participant in the
reading by asking yourselves questions.
11. Highlight or underline important words,
phrases or passages. Make notes in the
margins or in a notebook. Use your own
words to summarize the main idea.
12. To reread and Review depends on the
difficulty and the use you plan to give to the
material. First, we need to read carefully,
and then we skim quickly.
