Fundamental Reading Skills
Pleasure Reading
A more passive type of reading that primarily aims to provide enjoyment and entertainment
Prereading Stage
aims to induce readers' motivation to read and to activiate their schema or background knowledge
Rapid Reading
aims to locate specific information in a very short span of time
Skimming Locating the Main Idea Scanning
Types of Rapid Reading
Developmental Reading Pleasure Reading Functional Reading Remedial Reading
Types of Reading
Skimming
when you try to get the general idea by reading through the text quickly.
While-Reading Stage
you may reread the text until you fully understand its meaning.
Paraphrasing
Involves restating ideas from the original text
Developmental Reading
A systematic instruction which aims to develop the students' reading skills
Remedial Reading
Aims to correct the effects of poor teaching and poor learning
Functional Reading
Designed to help students learn basic functional reading abilities
Literal Reading
Involves the understanding of ideas and facts that are directly stated in the printed material
Summarizing
Is a reading skill that involves condensing a lengthy text into a shorter passage
Previewing
Is a skill wherein a reader looks over a material and focuses in the information which is relevant
Browsing
Is also a previewing technique
Infererence
Is an idea drawn from facts or details in the text
Locating the Main Idea
It involves the identification of the central message of a reading selection
To be informed To be entertained To be inspired
Reasons why People read
Critical Reading
Refers to close and thorough evaluation of the claims in the text
Inferential Reading
Refers to the process of deducing facts ; known as reading between the lines
Summarizing Paraphrasing Note-Taking
Skills under Literal Reading
Distinguishing facts from opinions and detecting logical fallacies
Skills under critical reading
Rapid Reading Previewing Literal Reading Inferential Reading Critical Reading
The Basic Reading Skills
Postreading Stage
check your understanding of the text; skills include reflecting ,etc
Reading
is a language skill which can be developed through constant practice
Scanning
is a quick reading strategy which aims to get specific information from a given text