Reading Skills and its Sub-skills
Reading involves a number of sub-skills.
1. Global Comprehension
In reading a text for meaning, it is desirable to go from the ‘whole’ to the ‘parts’, and not vice versa, as unskilled readers tend to do. A poor reader will pick up information from the text in small bits and pieces, as he/she reads from one word or one sentence to the next, and try to assemble the bits together. An efficient reader, on the other hand, will first try to form an over all ‘picture’ of the entire text.
‘Global Comprehension’, or the ability to get ‘over-all’ meaning from a text, requires the sub-skill of skimming i.e. reading through the text at high speed in order to identify and pick up the main idea or ideas in the text while ‘filtering out’ the unnecessary details.
1. Global Comprehension
In reading a text for meaning, it is desirable to go from the ‘whole’ to the ‘parts’, and not vice versa, as unskilled readers tend to do. A poor reader will pick up information from the text in small bits and pieces, as he/she reads from one word or one sentence to the next, and try to assemble the bits together. An efficient reader, on the other hand, will first try to form an over all ‘picture’ of the entire text.
‘Global Comprehension’, or the ability to get ‘over-all’ meaning from a text, requires the sub-skill of skimming i.e. reading through the text at high speed in order to identify and pick up the main idea or ideas in the text while ‘filtering out’ the unnecessary details.
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