Reading serves several purposes such as gaining information, verifying knowledge, critiquing ideas, and enjoying language. People read for study, pleasure, their careers, and language acquisition. Effective reading involves using reading material for extensive reading like reading for pleasure or intensive reading of different text genres to build spelling, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation skills.

1. Reading is an activity with a purpose. A person may read in order to gain
information or verify existing knowledge, or in order to critique a writer's
ideas or writing style. A person may also read for enjoyment, or to
enhance knowledge of the language being read.

2. For study
purposes
For
pleasure
For their
careers
For
language
acquisition
Spelling Writing
Vocabulary
knowledge
Grammar
Punctuation
Use reading
material

3. Extensive
reading
• Reading for
pleasure
Intensive
reading
• Text genres

4.  Written material
 Menus
 Timetables
 Signs
 Basic instructions
 Read for pleasure
LOW LEVEL HIGH LEVEL

5. Scan
Skim
Reading for detailed
comprehension

6. Encourage students to read as
often and as much as possible
Students need to be engaged
with what they are reading
Encourage students to respond
to the content of a text, not just
concentrate on its construction
Prediction is a major factor in
reading
Match the task to the topic
when using intensive reading
texts.
Good teachers exploit reading
texts to the full

7. Library
• Students need
to have access
to a collection
of readers, both
at their own
level and above
and below it.
Choice
• Students are
much more likely
to read with
enthusiasm if
they have made
the decision
about what they
read.
Feedbac
k
• Students should
have an
opportunity to
give feedback
on what they
have
read, either
verbally or in
written form.
Time
• We need to give
students time for
reading in
addition to those
occasions when
they read on
their own