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Basic Reading Skills
Basic Reading Skills
skills
What is reading?
• Reading is the process of
getting back and
understanding some form of
stored information or ideas.
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).
How do we read?
• We read at different speeds for
different purposes of
reading….
Detailed reading:
• Reading for memorization
(under 100 words per minute)
• Reading for learning (100–200
wpm)
to slow down when the
concepts are closer together
or when the content is
unfamiliar
Detailed reading:
• Reading for comprehension
(200–400 wpm) –Important !