This document provides an overview of reading skills. It discusses different types of reading like silent reading, oral reading, skimming, scanning, intensive reading and extensive reading. Intensive reading focuses on understanding the text in depth, while extensive reading is for general understanding. Other reading skills discussed include vocabulary skills, visual perception skills, and improving reading speed. The reading process involves decoding, comprehending, analyzing text and responding. The purpose of reading can be to get an introductory idea, broaden understanding, or obtain specific information. Intensive reading is slow and focuses on complete understanding, while extensive reading is rapid for overall information.

1. READING Skills
Reading maketh a full man-
‘Francis Bacon’
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2. Learning objectives
• Understanding the reading process
• Identifying the purposes of reading
• Techniques to improve reading speed
• Understanding different reading skills
• Knowing vocabulary skills
• Developing visual perception skills

3. Types of reading
• Silent Reading
• Oral Reading
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Intensive Reading
• Extensive Reading

4. Intensive Reading
• Intensive Reading
• Reader involves in depth of the text
• Focus is on Syntax /Semantics
• Identify key action words/phrases/sentences
• Read carefully with utmost attention

5. Extensive Reading
• Extensive Reading
• for general under standing of a text
• Reading for Gist/skipping unknown words

6. Reading Skills
• An important communicative process
• A complex communicative process of receiving and
interpreting the written word
• The most important language skill required for academic and
professional purposes
• Reading is concerned with four factors: decoding,
comprehending, text analysis and response

7. READING PROCESS
• Decoding-the reader reads letters and focuses on them in
order to change the coded message into information
• Comprehending-the reader interprets the message and
understand its literal meaning
• Text analysis response-the reader critically examines and
evaluates the message
• And responds to the message

8. READING SPEED
•Extensive reading is done to broaden our general
understanding of a text
•Intensive reading is to get an in-depth knowledge
and to understand the finer details of a subject
•In order to improve reading efficiency, reading
speed has to be increased
•Reading speed is measured in words per minute
(wpm)

9. PURPOSE OF READING
• To get an introductory idea of a text
• To get a broader understanding of the subject matter
• To understand scientific ideas, theories and principles
• To obtain specific information
• To understand new changes and developments in a particular
field
• To broaden one’s outlook and understanding
• To discover the author’s viewpoints
• To seek evidence for one’s own point of view

10. Intensive Reading- Extensive Reading
Intensive Reading
• Focus on
vocabulary/grammar
• Word-to- word reading
• Very slow reading
• To understand text
• Completely
• Read a particular subject
• Read for a particular
purpose
Extensive Reading
• Focus on getting the main
idea
• Rapid reading
• Read as fast as possible
• Over all understanding
• General reading
• Read for
information/pleasure

11. READING SKILLS
In order to become an active and efficient readers, different strategies and
skills are required:
• vocabulary skills
• visual perceptual skills
• rapid reading skills and
• intensive reading skills

12. Eye Reading and Visual Perception
1. Visual perception is a basic requirement for reading
effectiveness because we recognize a word through sight.
2. Inaccurate visual perception may lead to visual misreading and
lack of comprehension
3. It may also lead to confusion and misunderstanding.
4. To improve eye reading skills:
5. Develop faster eye fixations
6. Read in word groups
7. Improve accurate visual perception of words and phrases
8. Avoid vocalization and sub- vocalization
9. Rapidly recognize word meaning
10. Concentrate while reading

13. Scanning Skills
Scanning refers to the ability to locate specific information or facts
as quickly as possible which provides better comprehension
It serves several purposes like:
• A specific point or fact in a text
• Relevant graphic details
• A formulae or a word
• Train or television schedules
• Examination results or notes at the end of a text
• A word in a dictionary
• Any questions/remarks/notes at the end of a text
• Any references or bibliographical listings
It is important to increase scanning speed with accuracy.

14. Scanning Skills
To increase proficiency at scanning :
• Know want you want to find-determine the purpose
• Do not read everything-focus on the information needed
• Use guides and aids-to identify what is required
• Know the organization of the material to be read-to
analyse the way information is structured
• Concentrate while scanning-must have the urge to read
and identify the required information

15. Skimming Skills
• Skimming is the process of reading a text or passage to get a
rough idea of what it is all about….
• It is a rapid reading technique that prepares a reader for
detailed reading
• The main objective of skimming is to understand the central
and main points of a text
• It involves fast reading and quick analysis
• It also involves discovering the purpose, organization and
identifying the writing patterns of a text
• Skimming is essential for better understanding of a text

16. Reading Skills
Skimming =Gist
Scanning= Particular Information
Intensive Reading= Understanding the text in detail
Extensive Reading= For Data / Pleasure

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