This document discusses different reading skills and types of reading. It outlines 11 reading skills: scanning, skimming, noting details, making inferences, predicting outcomes, drawing conclusions, making comparisons and contrasts, sensing cause and effect relationships, distinguishing fact from opinion, and 5 types of reading: exploratory reading, analytic reading, critical reading, extensive reading, and intensive reading. Each skill and type is defined and an example is provided.

1. READING SKILLS
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MS. LAARNI V. PEREZ

2. 1. SCANNING
• Rapid reading assisted by key words:
locate pieces of info
• What, who where, when, how
• Examples:
• Looking for a word meaning in the
dictionary
• Getting a docu from the filing cabinet
• Looking through the yellow pages

3. 2. SKIMMING
• Rapid reading focusing on the TITLE,
HEADINGS, TOPIC SENTENCE, SIGN
POSTS to get the main idea
• Examples:
• Surveying a chapter/article
• Reviewing something you’ve read
• Choosing a magazine/book to buy in the
bookstore

4. 3. NOTING DETAILS
• Factual reading, directly concerned with
remembering items in the selection
• Called as such bec. you write down or
take into memory
• Examples:
• For stories – chars, settings, etc.
• For essays - facts

5. 4. MAKING INFERENCES
• Making educated GUESS based on
available info read or observed
• Sensing relas. not stated but implied by
the author
• CAVEAT: don’t jump into inaccurate
conclusions
• Examples: getting meaning of words
through context clues, or the main idea,
inferring feeling

6. 5. PREDICTING OUTCOMES
• Intelligent GUESSING of future
behavior/actions based on present or
past actions/behaviors, tendencies, or
based on facts
• Examples:
• Predicting a possible ending of a novel
• Predicting the reaction of your mom
when she sees your card

7. 6. DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
• Giving JUDGMENT based on written
materials/observed facts
• CAVEAT: Your statement must consist of
factual EVIDENCES to support it.
• Examples:
• Drawing conclusions fr. read
academic/technical writing
• What you can say abt P-Noy regarding the
case of the terrorism that happened

8. 7. MAKING COMPARISON AND
CONTRAST
• Reading that focuses on the similarities &
differences of RELEVANT DETAILS in a text
or RELEVANT DETAILS in 1 text compared
& contrasted to details of another text
• Examples:
• Comparing and contrasting the artificial
intelligences in A.I. Movie with that of the
Terminator movie

9. 8. SENSING CAUSE & EFFECT
RELATIONSHIP
• C-E relationship describes something that
happens (effect) and why it happens (cause)
• Ex.
Our basketball team lost the championship
game because our star player got sick.

10. 9. DISTINGUISHING FACT FR. OPINION
• When engaged in critical reading, it is a must
to learn to evaluate the material you read;
you must be able to distinguish bet. Fact and
Opinion.
• Fact – verifiable truth
• Opinion – personal belief or judgment, w/out
actual proof of its truth
• Ex. Stars are actually suns.

11. KINDS OF READING
• According to purpose & manner of
comprehending

12. 1. SCANNING
2. SKIMMING

13. 3. EXPLORATORY READING
• Aims to get a fairly accurate picture of a
whole presentation of ideas; how the
whole selection is presented
• Allots more time for reading
• Examples:
• Long articles in mags., short stories,
descriptive texts

14. 4. ANALYTIC READING
• Demands careful attention to each word
& its importance in relation to other
words in the sentence or parag.
• Examples:
• Reading mathematical problems,
scientific formulas, and certain
definitive statements of key ideas that
require a questioning/inquisitive mind

15. 6. CRITICAL READING
• Reader stops to consider the facts
carefully, “take time to read in order
to the get facts straight”
• Examples:
• Reading done in periodicals, books,
ads which are loaded with
propaganda devices designed to
sway opinions

16. 7. EXTENSIVE READING
Reading in your own pace for
leisure
8. RECREATIONAL/LEISURE
READING

17. 9. INTENSIVE READING
Serious, IN-DEPTH reading for
research work or a report
10. STUDY READING

18. 11. DEVELOPMENTAL READING
• When a reader is under a
comprehensive reading program
that lets him go through stages &
monitors him closely
• Examples:
• SRA
• ARC