different reading styles in english subjects
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Different Reading Styles
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
DIFFERENTREADING STYLES
SKIMMING
SCANNING
CLOSE READINGINTENSIVE
EXTENSIVEDEPT-REEDING
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
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…
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
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?
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
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.