Re pública Bolivariana de Venezuela

Universidad Nacional Experimental Marítima del Caribe

Vicerrectorado Académico
Dirección General Académica
Coordinación de Estudios Mediados por las TICL

Unidad Curricular : Inglés I

Prof. Zaida Lucena. Mrs. Tovar

Reading techniques are tools used to read more efficiently, without the
help of a dictionary. Some useful techniques are: skimming ,scanning ,
previewing, intensive and extensive reading ,

Depending on the purpose of our reading

one or more specific reading Technique or
strategy may be applied

Skimming INTENSIVE
READING

EXTENSIVE
Scanning READING

PREVIEWING

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"

 Reading When it is used How To…
What it is
technique

 Skimming is a quic k
reading to get a gene ral  It is used when reading some How to Skim:
idea of what the text is general question in mind.
Students read through the text in
about, focusing on certain
 To build student confidence and the following manner:
key words or phrases.
an understanding that it is
Skimming Skimming can also take in
possible to gain meaning 1. Read the title if any.
features such as headings,
without reading every word in a
subheadings and 2. Read the introduction or the
text.
illustrations to obtain an first paragraph.
overview of the subject  Skimming is a skill that
3. Read the first sentence of
matter. a student may want to develop
each of the following
 Skimming is a more if they are planning to continue
paragraphs.
complex task than with academic studies. It is
scanning because it often used in review ing for a 4. Read any headings or sub-
requires the reader to test. headings.
organize and remember
some of the information 5. Look at any pictures or
given by the author, not phrases that are in boldface
just to locate it. or italics

6. Don’t stop to reread the

material if you find a word
you do not understand.

7. Read the summary or last

paragraph.

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"

 Reading When it is used How To…
What it is
technique

 Scanning is a quick  Scanning is used often with How to Scan:

reading, focusing on technical, scientific or
locating specific professional materials to 1. Make predictions and
information. locate specific information. guesses. Begin with a
Scanning clear understanding of
 Scanning involves quick what you are looking for
eye movements, not 2. Use titles and tables of
necessarily linear in  Scanning is a valuable skill contents to get an idea of
fashion, in which the eyes for second language what a passage is about
wander until the reader learners to develop because 3. Activate prior knowledge
finds the piece of often they do not require a about the topic of the
information needed. detailed read of a text. passage by answering
There are many everyday some questions or
 Scanning is used when a uses for scanning, relevant performing a quiz
specific piece of to a purpose, such as 4. Anticipate what they want
information is required, reading a schedule. to learn about the topic.
such as a name, date, 5. Use titles, pictures, and
symbol, formula, or prior knowledge to
phrase, is required. The anticipate the contents of
reader knows what the the text.
item looks like and so, 6. use key words, that may
knows w hen he has have been given to them
located what he was by the teacher, that do not
searching for. It is appear in the text, that
assumed then, that very allude to the main idea.
little information is 1. Pass quickly over all
processed into long-term material that is not directly
memory or even for related to the information
immediate understanding you seek.
because the objective is
simply matching.
Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"
 Reading When it is used How to Prewiew
What it is
technique

 When you gather  To read books or 1. Read the title and ask: What is
information about a short texts. the passage about? Do you
book by examining its know anything about this topic?
cover, you are 2. Decide w hat kind of text it is:
preview ing. The aim of an essay, an argument, a story,
preview ing is to help an explanation? Does it see m
you to predict or make difficult?
some “educated 3. Look at the way the text is
guesses” about what is organized. Divided into parts?
in a book or text. Subtitles?
4. Read very quickly the first line
of each paragraph or sub-
PREVIEWING division. Can you tell what the
passage is about?
5. Notice,names, numbers, dates
and words that are repeated.
Do you recognize any of them?
6. Read the last few sentences in
the final paragraph. Is it a
conclusion o a summary.

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"

 Reading When it is used Role of Student
What it is
technique

 Intensive reading is  The student assumes

used to teach or total responsibility for
 Extensive reading is developing reading
practice specific reading
carried out "to achieve ability .
INTENSIVE strategies or skills. The
a general
READING text is treated as an end
understanding of a  The student reads
in itself.
text." without the use of a
 It is used for study of
dictionary.
 The aims of extensive content material that
reading are to build are difficult.  The student usually
reader confidence and The materials: chooses their own
enjoyment.  usually very short texts material and moves
- not more than 500 along at their own pace
 Extensive reading is words in length but must push
always done for the  chosen for level of themselves in order to
comprehension of difficulty and usually, by show greater progress.
main ideas, not for the teacher
specific details.  chosen to provide the
types of reading and
skills that the teacher
wants to cover in the
course

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"

 Reading When it is used Role of Student
What it is
technique

 It is the term used to  Extensive

describe the reading involves  Looks at main ideas
strategies call into reading of large versus details
play when we read quantities of material,  Understands what is
EXTENSIVE longer texts either for directly and implied versus stated
READING pleasure or for fluently. It is treated
information and may as a means to an end.  Makes inferences
involve the entire It may include reading
gamut of strategies, simply for pleasure or  Looks at the order of
information.
which the reader reading technical,
applies according to scientific or  Identifies words
the individual texts professional material. that connect one idea
and his interests in to another
its various parts.
 Identifies words that
indicate change from
one section to another

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"

Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"
Prof. Zaida Lucena "Mrs. Tovar"