Reading Skills by JENITA GAYATHRIE PANY https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z Jenita Pany, Vikneshah, Joycehelda, Christel, Kenneth en-us 2017-11-25 07:07:22 UTC 2025-11-05 17:15:08 UTC hello@padlet.com INTENSIVE READING e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210004910 2017-11-25 07:11:35 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210004910 Intensive reading 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. For an example when the learners read a short text, they are able to arrange events from it into chronological order. e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210004943 2017-11-25 07:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210004943 Intensive reading needs the learners to read in detail with specific learning aims and tasks. It can be compared with extensive reading, which involves learners who read texts for enjoyment and to develop general reading skills. e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005233 2017-11-25 07:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005233 Intensive reading activities include skimming a text for specific information to answer true or false statements or filling gaps in a summary, scanning a text to match headings to paragraphs, and scanning jumbled paragraphs and then reading them carefully to put them into the correct order. e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005281 2017-11-25 07:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005281 The advantage of IR is that it focuses the learner on certain aspects of the language. However, IR is usually done with difficult texts with many unknown words that require the learner to use a dictionary. This means the reading is slow and that there are few opportunities for the learner to learn to read smoothly, because she has to stop every few seconds to work on something she can't understand. This slows or prevents the development of fluent eye movements that are so necessary to improve one's reading skill. e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005555 2017-11-25 07:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005555 IR is the most typically taught method of teaching reading. Unfortunately some teachers only know this method and believe that by teaching the vocabulary and grammar that is all the learner needs. This is not so, she also needs practice in reading and to be trained in developing reading skills. e017173 https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005647 2017-11-25 07:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/e017173/ke051t92bw1z/wish/210005647