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Reading skills skimming and scanning
This document discusses reading skills and strategies. It notes that reading is the most important language skill for acquiring a new language as it involves decoding symbols to derive meaning. Reasons for reading include obtaining information, verifying knowledge, pleasure, and enhancing one's knowledge. The types of materials that can be read include books, newspapers, magazines, articles, notices, correspondence, and multimedia. Reading content includes fiction, non-fiction, academic works, and more. The document emphasizes that reading is important across all subjects and in daily life. It provides tips on skimming to identify main ideas quickly, scanning to locate specific information, and comprehending and critically analyzing texts. Research discussed found a link between early reading skills and later intellectual abilities.
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Introduction by Aimee Feb Amora focusing on the vital nature of reading skills in language acquisition.
Reading is crucial for language acquisition and is a cognitive process for understanding text.
People read for information, pleasure, exams, and to enhance knowledge across various topics.
Includes books, newspapers, articles, notices, and multimedia, showcasing diverse reading formats.
Reading encompasses fiction, songs, plays, essays, and business communications among other formats.
Every class and daily activities require reading, emphasizing its pervasive importance in education.
Research indicates that 40-50% of read material is quickly forgotten, within about 15 minutes.
Significant dropout rates: over 40% of high school and 50% of college students struggle with reading.
Early reading can strengthen cognitive skills and facilitate better literacy over a lifetime.
Defining reading strategies as essential activities to enhance reading abilities in students.
Strategies include skimming, scanning, comprehensive, and critical reading to boost understanding.
Skimming is a fast technique for grasping main ideas without focusing on detailed information.
Scanning involves quickly locating specific information in a text, employing selective reading techniques.
Differentiates between skimming (main ideas) and scanning (specific info) with regard to comprehension.
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- 1. Reading Skills By: AimeeFeb Amora Bsed - English
- 2. Reading is themost important skill in other language from other language skill is in acquiring language. It is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from text(as in reading a book or reading a music.)
- 4. Why do weread? Information Verify existing Knowledge Pleasure Have access to the literature Interest Enhance knowledge Exam!!
- 5. What do weread? Books Newspaper,Magazines Articles Notices Correspondence Forms , Signs Multimedia Career
- 6. What is thecontent? Fiction (Long and Short) Songs Plays Current events, feature articles and essay Academic articles, reports, reviews Warnings, Direction Letters, Postcards and notes Business letters, Solicitation
- 7. Hard to believebut …. READING applies to every class and everything you do on a daily basis. - Math - Science - English - and YES Computers too. Think about it.. Reading is all around you.. READING MATTERS!!
- 8. According to researchthat 40- 50% of the material we read is forgotten very shortly about 15 minutes.
- 9. Over 40% ofhigh school students fail to graduate because many of them can’t read enough to keep up. Over 50% of college students fail to graduate because they are not prepared for the amount of reading needed in college.
- 10. Researchers from theUniversity of Edinburgh and King's College London found that early reading skills might positively affect later intellectual abilities. "Since reading is an ability that can be improved, our findings have implications for reading instruction," Stuart J. Ritchie, leader of the study and a research fellow in psychology at the University of Edinburgh, said in a statement. "Early remediation of reading problems might aid not only the growth of literacy, but also more general cognitive abilities that are of critical importance across the lifespan."
- 11. READING STRATEGIES What isstrategy??? Strategy is an activity that used to help students increase their reading abilities
- 12. Techniques in Reading Skimming Scanning Comprehensive Reading Critical Reading
- 13. What is Skimming?? Skimming- a reading technique means going quickly over the material in order to get an idea of it’s subject matter without having to pay close attention to details. This is a technique used to identify the main ideas of a text.
- 18. What is Scanning? Scanningrefers to reading a text quickly in order to locate specific pieces of information. When scanning, 1. Don’t start from the beginning and read to the end 2. Jump around in the information you need. 3. Do not read every word 4. Look for information as quickly as you can.
- 20. Difference between Skimmingand Scanning Skimming Scanning Locate single fact or specific bit of information. Fast way to find info Accurate in finding info Get main idea not all details Fast reading Must leave out parts Comprehension is lower