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The document emphasizes the importance of reading and comprehension skills in today's job market, highlighting that many people do not dedicate enough time to reading. It outlines various skills and levels of comprehension necessary for effective reading, including skimming, scanning, and critical reading. Additionally, it provides strategies for identifying main ideas and supporting details in texts.

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READING

COMPREHENSION
Reading Is Important
 The job market now demands a
workforce that is more highly educated
than ever.

 people aren't reading as much anymore


and yet the need for reading,
comprehension, and communication
skills (verbal and written) has increased.
 However, most people, children and adults,
do not spend any significant portion of their
free time reading.

 Without committing time to reading, no one


can gain the reading skills or knowledge
they need to succeed in school, at work, or
in life in general.

 The best way to improve your reading


efficiency is to read a lot.
What is Reading Comprehension?
 According to Webster's Dictionary,
comprehension is "the capacity
for
understanding fully; the act or
action of grasping with the
intellect.“
Skills for Increasing
Comprehension
1. Finding main ideas and supporting
details/evidence.
2. Making inferences and drawing conclusions.
3. Summarizing/Paraphrasing.
4. Reading for Information/details.
5. Reading and Interpreting non-prose forms
(e.g., graphs, tables, charts, diagrams).
6. Understanding opinions.
7. Identifying tone, mood and style of
writing.
8. Rhetorical patterns such as
comparison-contrast, cause and effect,
description and narration.
Three Levels of
Comprehension
1. Literal
It focuses on reading the passages, hearing
the words or viewing the images. It involves
identifying the important and essential
information.

What is actually stated:


 Facts and details
 Rote learning and memorization
 Surface understanding only
2. Interpretive

What is implied or meant, rather than what is


actually stated.
 Drawing inferences
 Tapping into prior knowledge/experience
 Attaching new learning to old information
 Reading between lines to determine what
is stated.
3. Applied

It includes what was said (literal) and what was


meant (interpretive), then it extends (apply)
the concepts or ideas.
 beyond the situation.
 Analyzing
 Synthesizing
 Applying
Skills Required for Comprehension

Important skills required for


comprehension and developing
concentration:
1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Intensive Reading
4. Extensive Reading
5. Critical Reading
Skimming
 It is a rapid reading focusing on TITLES,
SUBTITLES AND HEADINGS.

 It is used when reading magazines,


newspaper articles etc.
Skimming
 Skimming is used to quickly identify
the main ideas of a text. It is quickly
looking through text to get an idea of
what the text concerns.

 Skimming is a process of speed


reading that involves visually searching
the sentences of a page for meanings.
Scanning
 It is a rapid reading assisted by key
words to locate specific pieces of
information e.g. figures or names.

 It can be contrasted with skimming,


which is reading quickly to get a
general idea of meaning.
Intensive Reading
 It involves learners reading in detail
with specific learning aims and tasks. It
can be compared with extensive
reading, which involves learners
reading texts for enjoyment and to
develop general reading skills.
Example:
 The learners read a short text and put
events in chronological order.
Critical Reading
 In this technique, we Question , Analyze
and Evaluate the text.

 Critical reading is a form of language


analysis that does not take the given
text at face value, but involves a deeper
examination of the claims put forth as
well as the supporting points and
possible counterarguments.
Identifying Topics,
Main Ideas, and
Supporting Details
Identifying the Topic
 The first thing is to identifying the main idea,
topic or the subject of the paragraph.

 Strategy for topic identification is simply to


ask yourself the question, "What is this
about?”
 The bulk of an expository paragraph is
made up of supporting sentences (major
and minor details), which help to explain or
prove the main idea.

 These sentences present facts, reasons,


examples, definitions, comparison,
contrasts, and other pertinent details.

 They are most important because they sell


the main idea.
 The last sentence of a paragraph is likely to be
a concluding sentence. It is used to sum up a
discussion, to emphasize a point, or to restate
all or part of the topic sentence.

 The last sentence may also be a transitional


sentence leading to the next paragraph.

 Besides expository paragraphs, in which new


information is presented, the longer writings
contain three types of paragraphs:
introductory, transitional, and summarizing.
Exercise
 Read the following paragraph and Rewrite the
stated main idea.
 Write down in your own words what you are
able to conclude from the information.
 The rules of conduct during an
examination are clear. No books,
calculators or papers are allowed in the
test room. Proctors will not allow anyone
with such items to take the test. Anyone
caught cheating will be asked to leave the
room. His or her test sheet will be taken.
The incident will be reported to the proper
authority. At the end of the test period, all
materials will be returned to the proctor.
Failure to abide by these rules will result in
a failing grade for this test.
Answer
 First sentence in the paragraph is the stated
main idea.

 Conclusion can be stated as follow:


If you do not follow the rules, you will
automatically fail the test.

 This concluding information is found in


the last sentence.
Any Question?

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