The document discusses effective reading skills. It notes that the purpose of reading is to connect new ideas to prior knowledge. It also discusses reasons for poor reading comprehension such as inability to understand words, sentences, or how information fits together. The document provides techniques for improving comprehension, including reading a variety of materials, circling unknown words, and recalling after reading. It lists specific techniques for good comprehension like skimming, scanning, and understanding an author's viewpoint. Finally, it discusses summarizing, such as selecting important information and adjusting the length of the summary.

1. Effective Reading Skills --NIKHIL JOSHI [email_address] [email_address]

2. Introduction 45% L 30% S 16% R 9% W

3. Purpose of Reading Purpose of reading is to connect the ideas on the page to what you already know. Example: 59683724 tuff to remember 596-837-24 easier because of grouping numbers 1234567-easiest to read and remember because of prior knowledge

4. Reading Rate Fixation: when your eyes stop on a word Reading Comprehension: Ability to understand information presented in written form.

5. Reasons for Poor Comprehension 1-inability to understand word 2-inability to understand sentence 3-inability to understand how sentences relate to one another 4-inability to understand how the information fits together in a meaningful way 5-lack of interest and concentration

6. Improving Comprehension skills 1-Read variety of material 2-Read long material 3-Circle unknown words 4-Recall after reading

7. Techniques for Good Comprehension 1-Skimming & Scanning 2-Non-verbal Signals (heading, title, sub headings, photographs, captions, division into paragraphs, figures, graphs, charts) 3-Structure of the text (predicting from title and other sub parts of the text) 4-Punstuation (grammatically and from the author’s view point) 5-Author’s view point 6-Reader anticipation (context based meaning) 7-Summarizing (important points)

8. summarizing 1-Familiarize yourself with the material 2-Select important information 3-Paraphrase the information 4-Insert links between sentences and paragraphs 5-Adjust the length of the summary

9. T h a n k y o u … -NIKHIL JOSHI [email_address] [email_address] www.nikhiljoshi.co.in www.nikhiljoshi2007.blogspot.com www.gcet-languageclub.blogspot.com www.communicationandresearchskills.blogspot.com