Basic reading skills

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Basic reading skills
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What is reading?

• Reading is the process of getting back and
  understanding some form of stored information or
  ideas.

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What do we read?

• Reading by humans is mostly done from paper with
  ink, e.g. a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet,
  notebook. (PRINT)
• Now you can do reading via the 'World Wide Web'
  (NON PRINT).

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How do we read?

• We read at different speeds for different
  purposes of reading.

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Detailed reading

• Reading for memorization (under 100 words per
  minute)
• Reading for learning (100200 wpm)

to slow down when the concepts are closer
together or when the content is unfamiliar
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Detailed reading

• Reading for comprehension (200400 wpm)
  Important !

the essence of most peoples daily reading
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Skimming for getting the gist of something

• Skimming (400700 wpm)

Use skimming when you're trying to decide if a
book in the library or bookshop is right for you.
When you're going through a newspaper or magazine
in the morning you read quickly to get the main
points, and skip over the detail. Then you rush
to your school.
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Scanning for a specific focus

• Scanning (more than 700 wpm)
• When you're looking up a name in the phone book
• When youre looking up your name in a lucky draw
  result list in the newspaper.

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Active reading elaboration and rereading.

• When you're reading for your course, you need to
  make sure you're actively involved with the text.

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How will you read in these situations?

• The TV guide for Friday evening
• An English grammar book
• An article in National Geographic magazine about
  the Roman Empire
• A good friend's homepage on the Internet
• The opinion page in your local newspaper
• The weather report in your local newspaper
• A novel

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• A poem
• A bus timetable
• A fax at the office
• An advertising email - so called "spam"
• An email or letter from your best friend
• A recipe
• A short story by your favourite author

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The usual plot of a story

• Beginninggtgtgt
• Developmentgtgtgt
• Crisis/ problemsgtgtgt
• Solution

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In this term

• We will read 4 class readers and you will learn
  how to read stories. Then you will choose your
  books to read in library lessons.
• Later you will re-tell the stories to others.

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• http//www.bookhaven.co.uk/
• http//www.studyskills.soton.ac.uk/studytips/readi
  ng_skills.htm
• http//www.kidzone.com/ecc/ssmart13.htm
• http//www.readingcomprehensionconnection.com/read
  ing_lesson.php