READING TECHNIQUES

The process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters or symbols. Leu and Kinzer (1987) defines
reading as a development, interactive, and global process involving learned skills.

STAGES OF READING
1. Pre-reading Stage
The individual is also trained auditory and visual discrimination, listens to, tells, and discusses
stories and learns basic work and study habits.
2. Initial Reading Stage
The individual begins to use picture, context, and configuration clues to recognize words and
then goes on to beginning instruction in phonetic and structural analysis techniques.
3. Stage of Rapid Progress
The reader extends his use of a variety of word-recognition techniques and begins to use the
dictionary for word meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
4. Stage of Extended Reading Experience and Rapidly Increasing Reading Efficiency
The individual, at this stage, uses word-recognition techniques automatically, and is almost
completely independent in reading.
5. Stage of Refinement in Reading Abilities, Attitudes, and Tastes The individual reader has acquired
independence in locating and utilizing a variety of materials, is aware of varied purposes for
reading, and has developed skills of critical evaluation of material read.

KINDS OF READING
1. Extensive Reading - Reading for pleasure any topic of interest.
2. Intensive Reading - Careful and in- depth reading

INTENSIVE READING SUB-TYPES

➢ SCANNING
- a reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information
quickly. In scanning you have a question in your mind, and you read a passage only to
find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.
Steps for scanning
• Look for key words, or words that are repeated.
• Look for definitions.  Look for highlighted words, eg words in bold or italic.
• Look for numbers, eg dates and statistics.
• Look for examples, including diagrams.

Ex. A google search list on the internet to find the right website to answer your
question To find a date, amount or fact that you know is in an article A bus /
airplane schedule
➢ SKIMMING
- Skimming is a reading (sub-)skill in which a reader quickly goes through a text
in order to get the gist and general idea or information.
 • Quickly identify main ideas of a text.
• Skimming is 3 to 4 times faster regular reading
• Used when there is a lot of material and a short amount of time
• Also called rapid-survey reading

Steps of Skimming

❖ Read the title - it is the shortest possible summary of the content

❖ Read the introduction or lead-in paragraph
❖ Read the first paragraph completely
❖ If there are subheadings, read each one, looking for relationship among
them
❖ Read the first sentence of each remaining paragraph
a) the main idea of most paragraphs appears in the first sentence
b) if the author’s pattern is to begin with a question or anecdote, you
may find the last sentence more valuable.

Types of Skimming

• Skimming to overview
• Skimming to preview
• Skimming to review

Degrees of Skimming

➢ Slight
➢ Partial Complete

3. EXPLORATORY READING

- Exploratory reading allots more time into getting a fairly accurate picture of a material's
presentation of ideas.

Exploratory reading aims to get the accurate picture of the whole presentation of ideas. on How
the whole selection is presented. mainly It is referring to structure or method of paragraph
development.

Ex. Reading a long article from a magazine, reading short stories and descriptive texts.

4. STUDY READING

- Understanding of the main ideas and their relationships.

Steps for Study Reading

➢ SQ4R
❖ Survey
- to prepare for reading Examine the chapter titles, headings and sub headings
and reading the introduction, conclusion, abstract or summary
 ❖ Question
- answering the who, what, when, where, why, how of the selection.
Convert headings or sub-headings to questions or ask questions such as: what
was the reading about? What are the key parts, arguments, or examples given? How
does readings connect to your other reading? Then looking for the answers while
reading.
❖ Read
- taking time to read
❖ Record
- Take notes Summarize the main ideas by your own words to understand it
more 
❖ Recite
- recall Some people read aloud info or mentally recall, partner up for Q&A to
memorize the information they recieved.
❖ Review
- repeating the steps Is to repeat some of the steps to achieve understanding

5. CRITICAL READING

- Question, analyze and evaluate the text. Uses critical- thinking skills.

ABILITIES TO READ CRITICALLY

• Separating Facts from Opinion

• Detecting Propaganda
• Recognizing Errors in Reasoning
Circular Reasoning
False Cause

6. ANALYTICAL READING

- Has careful attention to each word

7. INFERENTIAL READING

- Ability to process written information and understand the underlying meaning of the text.

8. DEVELOPMENTAL READING

- When a reader is under a comprehensive reading program which consist of several stages.

12 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD READ

✓ Reading is good for your brain
✓ Reading introduces you to new ideas and invites you to solve problems
✓ Reading makes you a better writer  Reading improves your conversational skills
✓ Reading strengthens worldview and convictions
✓ Reading improves your self-discipline and consistency
✓ Reading increases your knowledge of history
✓ Reading increases cultural knowledge (without an expensive plane flight)
✓ Reading challenges your imagination
✓ Reading increases your skill in an area of interest
✓ Reading inspires you  Reading reduces stress

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