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Page 1: Different reading styles in English subjects

Different Reading Styles

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READING is:Constructive: learning about written material using knowledge

from everyday life and from disciplined fields of study:

Fluent: mastery of basic processes for the analysis of meaning;

Strategic: controlling one’s reading in relation to one’s purpose, and/ or for comprehension;

Motivated: able to sustain attention and learning that written material can be interesting and informative; and

A lifelong pursuit: continuous practices, development, and refinement.

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/jblanton/read/readingdef.htm

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DIFFERENTREADING STYLES

SKIMMING

SCANNING

CLOSE READINGINTENSIVE

EXTENSIVEDEPT-REEDING

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SKIMMING refers to looking only for the

general or main ideas,

you read only what is important to your purpose

first few paragraphs in detail

read only the first sentence of each paragraph. Also called topic sentences, they give you the main idea of the paragraph

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Let’s try this…Most readers are unaware of their eye movements while they read,

assuming, if they think about it at all, that their eyes are moving steadily along each line before moving to the next. If this were the

case, reading at one line per second (which most people would guess to be a reasonable speed) you would cover 600;700 words per minute Eye movements when reading are far more complex,

however. The eye makes a series of extremely rapid jumps along a line, with a significant pause, 0.25 to 1.5 seconds, between each jump. Furthermore, many readers do not move straight along a

line, even in this jerky fashion…

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SCANNING look only for a specific fact or piece of

information without reading everything

Alphabetical - order from A to Z, Chronological - time or numerical order.

Non- alphabetical - television listing

Category – catalog

Textual - encyclopedia entry

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Chef Marco

My name is Marco. I come from Italy. I was born in 1970. I came to Britain in 2001. I am a chef. I work at a restaurant. I make pizzas. I study English in the evening.

Let’s try this…

o What is the title?

o When was Marco born?

o Where does he works?

o What did he make?

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CLOSE READING detailed and careful analysis

of a written work

the product of such analysis

*In-depth - gain deeper meaning and comprehension of a text

*Extensive - reading for your own pleasure

*Intensive - reading in detail with specific learning

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In-depth Reading

ResearchingReport AnalysisHomeworkReview; etc.

Story TellingReading a magazineReading a

newspaperReading a fiction

books; etc.

Extensive Reading Intensive ReadingAnalyzing story

sequenceAnalyzing crossword

puzzleAnalyzing regroupingOrganizing; etc.