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Fundamental Reading Skills

The basics…
✓Identify the
purposes, types,
Things we have to and categories of
accomplish: reading;
✓Apply appropriate
reading skills in
reading a text.
Reading skills

Some of the skills in reading you must know…


• Rapid Reading
• Previewing
Loooooook for the
• Literal Reading
definition of the
• Inferential
following terms:
Reading
• Critical Reading
Reading skills

Some of the skills in reading you must know…


Rapid
1.

reading
Scanning

is reading a text
quickly in order to find
specific information.
Skimming
is reading
quickly to get its
general idea.
2. Previewing

BROWSES a material
hurriedly and
checking whether it
is relevant to the
information
needed.
3. Literal
reading
Summarizing

• Highlight important ideas


without giving comments.
• Get the sub-main ideas and
put them together.
Paraphrasing

• Involves restating ideas


form original text.
• Length is almost the
same with the original
• Focuses on the details
4. Inferential reading
is deducing facts and ideas which are not directly
expressed in the text.
“reading between the lines”
5. Critical reading
is a close and
thorough reading which
tries to identify fallacies,
fact from opinion, or
symbols used.
State some reasons why you read…
Types of Reading

Developmental reading
Pleasure reading
Functional reading
Remedial reading
Types of
Reading

▪ Developmental
Types of
Reading

▪ Pleasure
Types of
Reading

▪ Functional
Types of
Reading

▪ Remedial

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