Session-8 Reading Skill

Integrated Professional English
22UC1101
Integrated Reading
Index
• Reading as receptive skill
• Practice reading
• Improve your reading skills
• Four important reading skills
• Types of reading comprehension
• Tips to improve reading skills
• Web links
What do we read in our daily life?
Text books
News Papers
Internet sources
Magazines
Journals
Why to practice reading?
KWL – method
• 1. Know( what do you want to know?)
• 2. Want to know( What do you want to

know?)
• 3. Learned ( What did you learn?)

Be selective
• Find out which assigned readings are required and

what are suggested.
• Focus on what is meaningful
• Break the reading into smaller parts
• Identify your purpose of reading and the time you have
available.
• Set yourselves goals ( I will read for 2 hrs ten pages and
stop.)
• Always record the reference
Print and electronic media
Improve your reading skills
• To build your vocabulary
• To learn words in chunks
• To observe how words express tons of feelings

and emotions
Four important reading skills
1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Intensive reading
4. Extensive reading
Skimming
Skimming is a method of rapid reading which will help you to understand the overall
theme or general meaning of the text. It is a fast reading technique that helps readers to
quickly identify the main idea of a text. The skimming technique is used to obtain the
gist or overall sense of a text. The reader does not pronounce each and every word of
the text, rather he focuses his attention on the subject matter, an overall view of the text,
Scanning
Scanning means looking for a specific piece of information in a text. The purpose of
scanning is to locate specific or precise or exact details that a reader is looking for. The
sub-skill of reading by which the reader collects a piece of particular information from
the given text is known as scanning that involves the ability to reject or ignore
irrelevant information. In order to locate a specific piece of information, the reader has
to go through the text quickly and focus his attention on the relevant part of the text.
Intensive reading
• Intensive reading implies you are diving deep into a given text. This is to analyze not only
every idea expressed in it but also the words and phrases the author has used. For this
reason, intensive reading is usually regarded as an advanced reading activity.
• To read intensively, you need several types of reading skills we have outlined, most notably:
 Advanced vocabulary range
 Excellent attention span
 Good memory
Extensive reading
• You can think of extensive reading as reading for pleasure. You don’t have to analyze each part of the
reading material or scratch your head anytime you’re not sure what the author wanted to say. Reading
extensively implies you are reading to get the bigger picture, enjoy the story, and pass the time.
• Extensive reading should not be confused with passive reading. While you are absorbing a certain material
for pleasure, you still want to take in new knowledge and engross yourself in the story. Regular extensive
reading helps you acquire new vocabulary too. It also builds a healthy habit of reading for pleasure.
• Ideal materials for extensive reading are magazines, fiction novels, and comic books. Make sure to pick
the material you are interested in and create a relaxing environment for reading for at least an hour. You
should also keep any distractions away.

Types of reading comprehension
 Literal—refers to the comprehension of basic information within texts that allows
you to answer the five Ws (who, what, where, when, and why) of the story or article
you are reading
 Inferential—based on your literal comprehension of a text, you can predict the
unfolding of events in a story or infer meaning from context
 Applied—using background knowledge to form an opinion about a text and retell it
to others. You can give an answer to any question related to the text you have read
continuation
 Evaluative—you can judge the text you read based on the author’s tone,
language, or writing style. Evaluative comprehension gives you the power to
read between the lines
 Lexical—implies you can infer the meaning of target vocabulary items
within texts. While lexical comprehension is often being taught to children, it
can also be used to learn a new language. If you want to practice lexical
comprehension, you can look up the keywords and phrases before reading a
text
•
Reading comprehension: Main idea & details
1. Summarizing & Retell
• Getting students in the habit of summarizing and retelling after reading a text is
foundational in reading comprehension.
• Having students retell helps clear up any misunderstandings (i.e incorrect plot line,
confusing multiple characters) – and can then lead to some really valuable
discussions!
continuation
1. Making connections
2. Teaching students to make connections when reading is valuable for multiple
reasons! Not only does it increase student engagement, but it also helps support
retention and comprehension.
• Text-to-Self:
• Text-to-Text
• Text-to-World
Main Idea & Details
• The students need to synthesize the information to identify what is most important.
The main idea is the big point in the text provided. It can be a story, news paper
edition, report, song , email and so on. It’s what the author most wants you to
remember after you’re done reading.
• Identifying main idea and details is a perfect skill to practice with both fiction and
nonfiction texts. Sometimes it’s actually easier to identify the main idea and details
in informational texts! It can also be helpful to start with identifying the main idea &
details in shorter passages.

Activities for teaching main idea & details:
1. Provide a visual anchor chart for main idea/details.
2. Encourage students to be detectives, searching for clues.
3. Graphic organizers
4. Cause is what makes something happen, and effect is what happens

Tips to improve reading skills
• Read more- set yourself – for example 21 days
• Make it a ritual- daily reading patterns
• Choose carefully what to read( pick something
interesting)
• Don’t be too ambitious
• Be true to yourself.
• Doesn’t matter what you read-novel, blog
post, magazine, articles or e reading.
continuation
• Don’t get stuck
• Commit- be sincere reader
• Test yourself
• (i) open a book
• (ii) read a paragraph
• (III) close the books
• IV) write down key points
• (V) check! Did you miss any important details.
Now tell me what reading is……
• It is the ability to understand written text

• Develops the mind and imagination and the
creative side of a person
• Helps to improve communication both for
written and spoken
• Helps in building a good life
Reading strategies
• Activating
• Inferring
• Monitoring
• Clarifying
• Questioning
Continuation
• Searching
• Selecting
• Summarizing
• Visualizing
• Organizing
Some of the barriers to effective reading are as follows
. Lack of grammatical and linguistic competence:

• Lack of motivation:
• Lack of concentration:
• Proper light and ventilation:
• Size of the book:
• Articulating the words and sentences loudly:
• Putting finger, pen or any object on the words and sentences
while reading
• Narrow eye span:
Thank you
Let’s work on reading skills

now……
Weblinks
• https://unifyhighschool.org/types-of-reading-s
kills/
• https://www.lifehack.org/899737/reading-stra
tegies

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• 2. Want to know( What do you want to

• 3. Learned ( What did you learn?)

• Find out which assigned readings are required and

• To build your vocabulary

• To learn words in chunks

• To observe how words express tons of feelings

reason, intensive reading is usually regarded as an advanced reading activity.

 Advanced vocabulary range

 Excellent attention span

should also keep any distractions away.

 Literal—refers to the comprehension of basic information within texts that allows

you are reading

 Inferential—based on your literal comprehension of a text, you can predict the

unfolding of events in a story or infer meaning from context

 Applied—using background knowledge to form an opinion about a text and retell it

language, or writing style. Evaluative comprehension gives you the power to

read between the lines

 Lexical—implies you can infer the meaning of target vocabulary items

within texts. While lexical comprehension is often being taught to children, it

1. Summarizing & Retell

foundational in reading comprehension.

2. Teaching students to make connections when reading is valuable for multiple

retention and comprehension.

remember after you’re done reading.

details in shorter passages.

1. Provide a visual anchor chart for main idea/details.

2. Encourage students to be detectives, searching for clues.

4. Cause is what makes something happen, and effect is what happens

• It is the ability to understand written text

. Lack of grammatical and linguistic competence:

Let’s work on reading skills

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