Teaching reading can be an arduous task as it is often difficult to know how to improve student skills. One of the most obvious, but I have found often unnoticed, points about reading is that there are different types of reading skills.
- Skimming - reading rapidly for the main points
- Scanning - reading rapidly to find a specific piece of information
- Extensive - reading a longer text, often for pleasure with emphasis on overall meaning
- Intensive reading - reading a short text for detailed information
These different types of skills are used quite naturally when reading in a mother tongue. Unfortunately, when learning a second or foreign language, people tend to employ only "intensive" style reading skills. I have often noticed that students insist on understanding
every word and find it difficult to take my advice of reading for the general idea, or only looking for required information. Students studying a foreign language often feel that if they don't understand each and every word they are somehow not completing the exercise.
Example of teaching
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powerpoint reading.ppt
Reading Skill lesson plan 2
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