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Key Reading Styles Explained

The document discusses four main reading styles: intensive reading, extensive/receptive reading, skimming, and scanning. Intensive reading focuses on analyzing specific details like language, while extensive reading is done for pleasure with a focus on content. Skimming involves quickly reviewing a text to understand the general idea, and scanning means searching a text quickly to find specific information to answer questions. These styles can be used together and provide a framework for organizing classroom reading activities from general to specific.

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Key Reading Styles Explained

The document discusses four main reading styles: intensive reading, extensive/receptive reading, skimming, and scanning. Intensive reading focuses on analyzing specific details like language, while extensive reading is done for pleasure with a focus on content. Skimming involves quickly reviewing a text to understand the general idea, and scanning means searching a text quickly to find specific information to answer questions. These styles can be used together and provide a framework for organizing classroom reading activities from general to specific.

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Reading Styles
The main reading styles are called: intensive, extensive/receptive, skimming, and scanning.
1. INTENSIVE READING is reading (relatively) shirt texts to extract specific information.
– for instance we read poetry or legal documents intensively, focusing on the words used;
– in the classroom intensive reading is usually an activity in which the text is examined by
the pupils under the teacher's supervision;
– it's a way of focusing the pupil's attention on language rather than content;
– this kind of reading can contribute to improve learner's language competence; however
intensive reading does not always contribute to the development of reading skills;

2. EXTENSIVE/ RECEPTIVE READING- consists of reading longer texts usually for one's
pleasure;
- the emphasis is on the informational content of the text;
- extensive/receptive reading is a fluency activity involving global understanding, in
which the readers do nit check every unknown word or structure;
3. SCANNING is quickly going through the text to find particular information;
- we look quickly through the text to find words that answer our specific questions;
4. SKIMMING involves quickly running one's eyes through a text to get its general idea ;
-skimming involves some interpretation; for instance , one may skim the review of a film
to see if the reviewer thinks it is good or bad;

These four different ways of reading do not exclude one another; we often skin through a text
to see what it is about before deciding whether it is worth scanning particular passage or
paragraph for specific information;
Following the principle of starting from the general and working towards the particular we
can follow this order in organising classroom reading activities:
SCANNING- SKIMMING- INTENSIVE/RECEPTIVE READING-INTENSIVE READING- SCANNING

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