This document discusses different reading approaches for students including skimming, scanning, and extensive reading. Skimming involves quickly reading a text to identify the main idea, scanning is searching for specific keywords or ideas, and extensive reading involves reading large amounts of material that is not too difficult. These techniques help students improve their reading skills by developing abilities like inferencing, predicting, and cultural understanding from different texts.

1. Writing a Close Analysis
and Critical
Interpretation of
Literary Texts Applying
a Reading Approach

2. Reading Approach
 This approach is one way of solving student’s reading problems
 Students are demanded to read more to improve their
knowledge and get new ideas
 Inferencing, guessing and predicting are important skills
developed in reading
 By reading, students will know about the different of culture by
reading across cultural understanding, and they will learn how
to pronounce the words correctly.
 In reading approach, students are expected to improve their
English skills.

3. Skimming
 the main idea of a text is quickly identified.
 The goal is to read shorter texts to extract accurate
detailed information.
 Skimming is done at speed three to four times faster
than regular reading
 People often skim when they have lots of material to
read in a limited amount of time
 Some students will read the first and last paragraphs
using headings, summarizes and other organizers as
they move down the page or screen.

4. Some might also read the title, subtitles,
subheadings, and illustrations
Skimming works well to find dates, names,
and places.
It might be used to review graphs, tables,
and charts.
This technique is useful when you are
seeking specific information rather than
reading for comprehension.

5. Scanning
 Scanning is quickly reading a text to get the summary of
it.
 It is a technique wherein students search for keywords
or ideas.
 Scanning involves moving eyes quickly down the page
seeking specific words and phrases.
 Scanning is also used for the reader to find answers to
questions
 Once a student scanned the document, they will go
back and skim it.

6. Extensive reading
 Extensive reading is an approach to language learning,
including foreign language learning, by means of a large
amount of reading.
 The readers view and review of unfamiliar words in a specific
context will allow the reader to infer the word’s meaning, to
learn unknown words.
 Extensive Reading is the free reading of books and other
written material that is not too difficult for readers
 Extensive Reading is sometimes called Free Voluntary Reading.

7. ACTIVITY!