This document discusses different types of reading skills. It categorizes reading skills into three main categories: according to purpose, according to reading performance/rate of understanding, and according to reading instruction programs. Some key reading skills discussed include skimming, scanning, intensive reading, extensive reading, speed reading, shared reading, guided reading, fluency reading, independent reading, and strategic reading. The document provides definitions and explanations of these various reading skills.

1. ASSIGNMENT OF COMMUNICATION
ON
READING SKILLS
Submitted
by
Umair Ahmad
to
Miss Sobia

2. READING SKILLS

3. Reading;
• Reading is a process of retrieving the meaning of stored information or
ideas.
• The action or skill of reading written or printed matter silently or aloud:
"suggestions for further reading"; "reading skills".
• Written or printed matter that can be read: "his main reading was detective
stories".

4. Reading skills;
• Reading skills enable readers to turn writing into meaning and
achieve the goals of reading independence, comprehension, and
fluency. If reading skills appear to be lacking, then a reading skills
assessment is recommended

5. • To acquire knowledge
• Reading helps in mental development
• Improvement of conversational skills
• Helps readers to decipher new words
• Developing vocabulary, language skills
• If the reader don't know anything about a subject, then it will be difficult for
him to grab the information.

6. THE WAY TO UNDERSTAND READING:
Two ways:
• 1. calling words – ability to recognize word structures
• 2. understand words – ability to understand the meaning within
the context of the words
One does not exist without the
other.

7. Types of readings

8. Hare are basic three ways to classify reading skills;
Reading according to
purpose
According to reading
performance
According to Reading
Instruction Program

9. 1. READING ACCORDING TO
PURPOSE.

10. 1. READING ACCORDING TO PURPOSE.

11. 1(B). SCANNING
• Look for specific information
in the text
• It makes you “skip more than
you read.”
• Also called search reading

12. Scanning -
looking for a particular piece of information

13. 1.(A) SKIMMING;
• General understanding of the whole
text
• Fastest type of reading based on
purpose
• Also called rapid-survey reading

14. Skimming -
running the eyes over quickly, to get the gist

15. 1(C).DETAILED STUDY READING;
• Requires serious reading and proper note
taking
• Uses the method of reading called SQ3R
(Survey, Question, Reading, Recall, Review)
• This reading works well in research projects
and academic study.

16. 1(D). INTENSIVE READING;
• Also called word-for-word type of reading
• Requires one to read materials related to his/her
field of specialization
• The object of intensive reading demands a great
deal of content-area reading.

17. 1(F). EXTENSIVE READING -
• Also called light-type of reading
• Reading for leisure
• You love what you read.
• longer texts for pleasure and needing
global understanding

18. 1(G).LITERATURE READING
• Not mainly for pleasure… but
• Intends to familiarize readers with different
genres of literature pieces: novels, short
stories, biographies, dramas, epics, etc…

19. 2. ACCORDING TO READING
PERFORMANCE /RATE OF
UNDERSTANDING

20. 2. ACCORDING TO READING PERFORMANCE
/RATE OF UNDERSTANDING

21. 2(A).SPEED READING;
• Information tends to stay superficially in
one’s mind.
• Not a good method if your objective is to
gain a deeper understanding of the text

22. SUBVOCALIZED READING;
• One recognizes the form of the word and
internally sounds it in the mind the way one
pronounces it as a spoken word.
• Focuses primarily on the form, stress,
intonation, phrasing of the language
• This prevents one from quick reading and
comprehension of the text.

23. PROOFREADING
• To see typographical errors
• Proofreading vs. editing

24. SPE (STRUCTURE PROPOSITION
EVALUATION);
• Three stages
1.Recognizing language structures
2.Making inferences
3.Evaluation of ideas, reasons, or conclusions
• Judgment is withheld until the text is fully
understood.

25. MI (MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES);
• Enhances not only analytical intelligence
but practical intelligence as well
1.Musical intelligence
2.Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
3.Spatial intelligence
4.Interpersonal intelligence
5.Intrapersonal intelligence

26. 3. ACCORDING TO READING-
INSTRUCTION PROGRAM

27. ACCORDING TO READING-INSTRUCTION
PROGRAM

28. 1.READ ALOUD
• Many teachers use this in instruction.
• Students will learn good expressions,
proper pacing, and correct
pronunciation.

29. SHARED READING;
• Both the teacher and student take
turns in reading portions of the text.
• It is also called as group reading.
• Enhance IQ level.
• It is necessary for students

30. GUIDED READING
• Reader is left alone to do silent reading.
• But the reader is motivated by the
teacher by various strategies.
using contextual clues, examining
illustrations, activating
schemata
• Reader is not totally left alone.

31. FLUENCY READING;
• Main objective:
To gain mastery of the
Pronunciation,
Phrasing,
Pausing,
Intonation,
Stress of the text.
• Progress: measured by the number of words one can read aloud and
comprehensions Qs answered correctly.

32. INDEPENDENT READING
• One chooses the material s/he wants to read.
• Still, the teacher helps you become an
independent reader by surrounding your with
interesting reading materials.

33. DEVELOPMENTAL READING
• Aims to refine one’s reading comprehension skills by
letting reader experience different reading stages:
1.Reading readiness in the nursery and kindergarten level
2.Beginning reading in Grades 1 and 2
3.Rapid growth in Grades 3 and 4
4.Refining and widening reading in the intermediate, HS,
college level, and beyond the tertiary level

34. SELECTIVE OR KEY-WORD READING
• Characterized by skimming and scanning
• Mainly focuses on a specific or principal
portion of the text to have a general view or
holistic understanding of the reading
material

35. REMEDIAL READING
• One submits himself/herself to a reading program that
will give him/her special reading sessions under the
guidance of a reading specialist.
• This requires one to reflect on thoughts.
• If a reader lags behind with regard to his vocabulary
knowledge, reading comprehension abilities, and
reading attitudes, he must submit himself to a reading
program that gives special reading sessions under the
guidance of a reading specialist.

36. STRATEGIC READING
• Regarded by some as the latest type of reading
• Thinking aloud about what you reading or thinking of
• You read with your eyes, but you also verbalize what you think about the
text, thus, letting your mind focus on the correct responses to the questions
about the passage.
• Also called as meta-cognitive, meta-thinking, meta-reading, or meta-
comprehension
• Requires a reader to be alert, awake, and active
• A reader uses or practices HOTS (higher-order thinking skills)