Reading styles.pptx

Reading Styles for one's purpose

1. READING STYLE FOR ONE’S PURPOSE

2. After going through this discussion, you are expected to: define skimming and scanning; use reading styles; and practice scanning and skimming texts for information.

3. Reading is a very good habit that one needs to work on in life. Books might just be a piece of paper for some, but they are a whole lot more. There is no better friend and companion than a book. Once you start reading, your learning and discovery will take you to a whole new world and through flipping its pages, you will surely get information and knowledge you need.

4. Speed Reading is the rate at which a person reads written text (printed or electronic) in a specific unit of time. Reading speed is generally calculated by the number of words read per minute.

5. Books are your best friends. They are great knowledge dispenser. You can turn to them for entertainment, inspiration and most of all information.

6. How can you quickly identify the main idea of a text?

7. Reading Styles SCANNING – when you look through a text very quickly to find specific details For example when we are searching for a telephone number in a directory, we scan the page for the name of the specific person we are looking for.

8. 2. SKIMMING - when you look over a text quickly (without reading word for word to get the general idea of what text is about When you skim you usually: Read the title of the book and look at any accompanying visuals. Read the beginning and end of an article ignoring details. Read just the first sentence of every paragraph.

9. 3. CLOSE READING – a method of literary analysis which focuses on the specific details of a passage or text in order to discern some deeper meaning present in it. The meaning derived from the close reading is the reader’s interpretation of the passage or text.