What is Reading?

• An act of understanding and

interpreting written or printed
words
• An intra-communication
• Serves the objective of
expanding the knowledge
and discovering information
• Has a purpose behind

1
Purpose of Reading
• Pleasure and enjoyment
• Practical application
• To obtain an overview
• To locate specific information
• To identify the central idea or
theme or concern
• To develop a detailed and
critical understanding

2
Approaches to Reading

Reading
Styles

Fast Slow
Reading Reading

Analytical Critical
Skimming Scanning
Reading Reading

3
Fast Reading Style
• How do you skim a text?
o Start-finish technique
o First sentence technique
• How do you scan?
o Consider the table of contents,
annotations, index
o Opening paragraphs
o Subheadings
o Underlined / bold / italicized
words

4
Slow Reading Style
• Analytical reading
o Simultaneous analysis of the
reading material
• Critical reading
o Questioning the intention of
the writer

5
Reading Process (SQ3R Model)

Survey

Question

Read

Recall

Review
6
Essentials of Effective Reading
• Selective reading
o Overview
o Preview
o Read
o Review
• Reading rate adjustment
• Note making

7
ACTIVITY TIME

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 Author
and
Scanning Article’s Skimming
Title

About Barriers /
Central
the Appealing
Idea factors
Article

Analytical Critical
Learning
Reading Reading