Reading Skills
1. What is Reading?
Reading is a multifaceted process involving word
recognition, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Skillful reading is reading for specific
information for a better learning experience in a short span of time.
2. What are the Benefits of effective Reading?
Followings are the benefits of effective reading:
1. It provides Comprehensive input.
2. It can enhance your general ability to use other
language.
3. it can enhance your vocabulary.
4. It helps you keep your mind focused.
5. It can make you enable to extract useful information.
6. It can help to consolidate both previously learned
language and knowledge.
7. It helps in Building confidence in reading.
8. It gives you pleasure and relaxation as books are best
an most reliable friends.
9. It can develop various skills like critical thinking,
evaluation of the text etc.
3. What are the speeds of reading as per the
reader?
Purpose of Reading
No. of words per minutes
An Average college Student
150-250
Good Reading Speed
250--400
Advanced Reader
1000
Reading for memorization
Fewer than 100
Reading for learning
100-200
Reading for Comprehension
200-400
Skimming
400-700
4. What are the factors of improving reading speed?
There are the three main factors involved in
improving reading speed:
1. The Desire to improve
2. Conscious efforts in using newly acquired
techniques.
3. A motivation to practice.
5. Describe the four basic steps of effective reading.
1. Figure out the purpose of reading a
particular text.
2. Spot the parts of the text relevant to the identified
3. Choose the appropriate reading strategy that suits
your purpose.
4. Test or assess your comprehension during reading and
also when the reading task is completed.
6. State the barriers of effective e Reading?
Following are the barriers of effective e
Reading:
- Lack of concentration
- Eye Fixation
- Reading aloud or Turning the head from side to side
- Indiscriminate Use of the Dictionary.
7. Describe
the various types of reading.
The following are the types of Reading Skills:
1. Skimming
A quick reading to gather the important information
or 'gist' from the document or novel is known as Skimming. Ex. Reading of News
Paper.
2. Scanning
Scanning is used to find a particular piece of
information. In this type of reading. you allow your eye to run over the
text, looking for the specific piece of information that you need. Ex. reading
a meeting plans, Specific content of Books and Newspaper.
3. Extensive Reading
Extensive Reading used to obtain a general un
understanding of a subject. Including reading of longer texts for pleasures.
Ex. Reading of Business Reports, Reading novel before going to bed.
4. Intensive Reading
Intensive Reading is used on shorter texts in order to
extract detailed information. It includes very close and accurate reading for
details. Ex. Understanding various concepts and theories
8. Define the Methods of Reading.
There are several methods of Reading, with different rates,
material and purposes
Sub vocalized Reading
Combine sight reading with internal sounding of the word
as if spoken.
Speed reading
Method of increasing reading speed
Photo Reading
Different than 'regular reading' or ' speed reading' .
Its a process of understanding the information than to read it.
Proofreading
Reading to find out typological error.
Structure- Proposition- Evaluation (SPE)
Mortimer Adler popularized this method in his book How to Read a Book and give three phases:
1. For the structure of the work,
2. For the logical proposition or progression made,
and
3. for evaluation of the merits of the arguments and
conclusion.
Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review (SQ3R)
A Method involving immaculate and perfect reading. In
this method the reader absorbs the information and uses it without having referred
to notes or the book again.
Multiple intelligence -based method
This method draws upon the reader's diverse ways of thinking and knowing to
enrich her/his appreciation of the text. Reading is fundamentally a linguistic
activity and readers intelligence will play an important role.
Note: For differentiations between efficient
and inefficient reader, Approaches of Reading and Tips for effective
reading prefer the Text book page nos.361-366.
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