Reading skill

Reading skills are abilities that pertain to a person's capacity to read,

comprehend, interpret and decode written language and texts.

Importance of reading skills

Reading skills are the key to:

 The general knowledge, spelling, writing abilitiesand vocabulary.

 The passion of learning and advancing
 The success in most academic and professionalfields.
 Improving grammar and spelling
 A healthy self-concept

Pillars of reading instructions

Phonemic Awareness:

Ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds

Phonics:

A method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by

learning the sounds of letter

Reading Fluency:

The ability to read with accuracy and appropriate rate, expression

and phrasing

Vocabulary:

Having a proficient word power

Text Comprehension:
Grasp the ideas behind the text

TYPES OF READING
Several types of reading may occur in a classroom:

 Oral
 Silent

Intensive
 Linguistic
 Content

Extensive
 skimming
 scanning

READING ACCORDING TO
PURPOSE
1. Skimming
• General understanding of the whole text

• Fastest type of reading based onpurpose

• Also called rapid-survey reading

2.Scanning

• Look for specific information in the text

• It makes you“skip more than you read.”

 • Also called search reading

3. Intensive Reading

• Also called word-for-word type of reading

• Require one to read materials related to his/her field of specializa9on

• The object of intensive reading demands a great deal of

content-area reading.

4. Extensive/Recreational Reading

• Also called light-type of reading

• Reading in spare 9me/free 9me

• You love what you read

5. Literature Reading

• Not mainly for pleasure… but

• Intends to familiarize readers with different classifications of literature

pieces: novels, short stories, biographies, dramas, epics, etc…

6. Detailed Study Reading

• Requires serious reading and proper note taking

• Uses the method of reading called SQ3R (Survey, Ques9on, Reading,

Recall, Review)

• This reading works well in research projects and academic study.

Intensive Reading
• Intensive reading gramma9cal forms, "calls discourse attention to
markers, and other surface structure details for the purpose of understanding
literal meaning, implications, rhetorical rela9onships, and the like." He draws an
analogy to intensive reading as a "zoom lens" strategy .

Intensive Reading Characteristics

• Reader is intensely involved in looking inside the text

• Focus on linguistic of a reading

• Focus on surface structure details such as grammar

• Identify key vocabulary

• Draw pictures to aid them (such as in problem solving)

• Read carefully

• Aim is to build more language knowledge rather than simply practice the
skill of reading

Extensive Reading
Extensive reading is carried out "to achieve a general understanding of a
text."

• extensive reading as "occurring when students read large amounts

material usually out of meaning, "reading class, concentrating on for gist" and
skipping unknown words."

• The aims of extensive reading are to build reader confidence and

enjoyment.

Extensive Reading Characteristics

The purposes of reading are usually related to pleasure, information and

general understanding.

• Reading is its own reward.

 • Reading materials are well within the linguis9c competence of the
students in terms of vocabulary and grammar.

• Reading is individual and silent.

• Reading speed is usually faster than slower.

• Teachers orient students to the goals of the program.

• The teacher is a role model of a reader for the students.

Skimming and scanning learn previous

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