1. Reading Power
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2. Reading Power
Reading for Pleasure
Reading Comprehension Skill
Thinking in English
Reading Faster
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3. Reading Power
Why is reading important?
3. Can help you learns to think in English
4. Can enlarge your English Vocabulary
5. Can help you improve your writing
6. May be a good way to practice your English
7. Can help you prepare for study
8. Is a good way to find out about new ideas, facts, & experiences
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4. Reading Power
Reading for Pleasure
 Why read for pleasure?
 What are the advantages of reading for pleasure?
 Guidelines for choosing a pleasure reading book
 Hints for success in reading for pleasure
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5. Reading Power
Reading Comprehension skill
 Scanning
 Previewing and Predicting
 Vocabulary Knowledge for Effective Reading
 Topics
 Topics of Paragraphs
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6. Reading Power
Reading Comprehension skill
 Main Ideas
 Patterns of Organization
 Skimming
 Making Inferences
 Summarizing
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7. Reading Power
1. Scanning
What is scanning?
 Is very high speed reading
 You have a question is in your mind
 Do not read every word
 Only the words that answer your question
 Practice it, will help you to skip over unimportant
words
 You can read faster
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8. Reading Power
1. Previewing and Prediction
 When you gather information about a book by
examining its cover, you are previewing.
 The aim of previewing is to help you to predict
or make some “educated guesses” about what
is in the book
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9. Reading Power
1. Vocabulary Knowledge for Effective Reading
a. Guessing Unknown Vocabulary
b. Guessing Meaning from Context in the
Sentences
c. Using Grammar to Guess Word Meaning
d. Recognizing Words that Connect Ideas
Three useful kinds of words to notice are
pronouns, synonims and summary words
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10. Reading Power
1. What is a topic?
When you read for the meaning, you should
begin by looking for the topic.
This helps you connect what you read to what
you already know
In order to find out the topic, ask yourself:
“What is this about? What is the general
idea?
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11. Reading Power
1. Topics of paragraph
A paragraph is a group of sentences that are
all about the same thing. That is, they all have
same topic .
There are 3 kinds of topic: best, too specific
and too general
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12. Reading Power
1. Main Ideas
The main idea of a paragraph is the author’s
idea about the topic.
It is always a complete sentence that includes both
the topic and the idea that the author wishes to
express about the topic.
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13. Reading Power
1. Patterns of Organization
Four common patterns
2. Listing of related ideas or examples
3. Sequence
4. Comparison/contrast
5. Cause-effect
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14. Reading Power
1. Skimming
 is high-speed reading that can save you
lots of time
 To get the general sense of a passage or
a book
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15. Reading Power
1. Making Inference
Sometimes the topic of a text may not be stated
anywhere directly. You must look for clues and
try to guess what the passage about.
Like the question: what is “it ” ?
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16. Reading Power
1. Summarizing
is the retelling of the important parts of a
passage in a much shorter form.
Why summarize?
 To make sure you to make sure you have
understood something
 To explain the sense of a passage to someone
else
 To review texts for examinations
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17. Reading Power
Thinking Skills
If you want to read well in English, you must think
in English as you read.
If you think in another language and translate
from the English, you will always have difficulty
with comprehension.
Understanding the words and the grammar is not
enough. You need to be able to follow the ideas
in English.
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18. Reading Power
Reading faster
Why read faster?
There are two important reasons for learning to
read faster;
 You can read more in less time
 You can improve your comprehension
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19. Thank You
Allah bless us
and
Good Luck
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