Extensive And Intensive

Reading
Made by Ariba Cheema and malaika saleem
WHAT IS READING?

1. It is the process of the action or skills of reading.

2. It is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and
getting meaning from them.
3. It is an active process of constructive meanings of word.
 Intensive Reading

• Intensive reading “Reading something

thoroughly and with proper understanding
for some specific aims and tasks is called
intensive reading.”
• For examples: A bookkeeping report or a
contract.
Intensive Reading Goals

• Focusing on new language (such as vocabulary

and grammar).
• Focusing on ideas (such as themes and topics).
• Learning new skills (such as making inferences
and identifying main ideas).
• Paying attention to text features such as genre
structure.
Characteristics

Reader is intensely involved in looking inside the

text.
Focus on linguistic or semantic ( concerned with
meaning ) details of a reading.
Draw pictures to aid them(such as in promlem
solving)
Read carefully
Aim is to build more language knowledge rather
than simply practice the skill of reading.
Examples of Intensive Reading

• Book keeping report

• Insurance claim
• Contract
Extensive Reading

• Extensive reading is carried out “to achieve

a general understanding of a text.”
• Extensive read large amounts of high
interest material;usually out of
class,concentrating on meaning,reading for
gist”and skipping unknown words.”
• The aims of extensive reading are to build
reader confidence and enjoyment.
Goals of Extensive Reading

• Focusing on texts
• Learning a language properly(vocabulary)
• Build reading speed and fluency
• Reading for pleasure.
Examples of Extensive Reading

• Magazines
• Novels
• Comic books