Intensive Reading

* Intensive Reading & Extensive Reading

Definitions:

* Extensive Reading:
It is the view of Palmer (1964) that “extensive reading” is considered as being reading rapidly. The readersread books after books. Its attention is paid to the meaning of the text itself not the language. The purpose of extensive reading is for pleasure and information. Thus, extensive reading is alsotermed as “supplementary reading”.

* Intensive Reading:
The work of Palmer (1921) notes that “intensive reading” means that the readers take a text, study it line by line, and refer at very momentto the dictionary about the grammar of the text itself.
To sum up, Palmer (1964) also concludes that both types of the reading are important because the main goal of reading is to comprehend theprinted pages.
* Classroom Reading Techniques and tasks
* Activate prior knowledge
* Discuss about the topic to trigger the interest and motivation
* Relate personalexperience to the text
* Familiarize yourself with the vocabulary relevant with the topic
* Use pictures/ illustrations to help arouse and flourish imagination
* Set questions relatingto increase curiosity and willingness to read.
* Scanning for particular or specific ideas/ answers to particular questions
* Skimming for general ideas and central ideas
* Gatherinformation: who, what, when, where, which, why, how?
* Predict and guess: what do you think will happen next?
* Suppose: If you were him/her, would you …? What would you do?
*Guess the title
* Word study: Synonym, Antonym, Prefix, Suffix, categorizing, class
* Reading report
* Summary
* Match ideas with sentences …T/F
* Fill in the Blank* Chart…..

The following strategies can help you with reading. Please classify them on the basis of pre-reading, while-reading, and post- reading. Put tick () 1. pre-reading 2. while-reading...