This document provides tips for improving reading skills, including using different reading styles like scanning, skimming, and detailed reading depending on your purpose. It recommends active reading techniques like underlining, note-taking, asking questions, and summarizing what you read. Finally, it suggests expanding your vocabulary by looking up unfamiliar words and reading widely.

1. HOW TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS BY: PAOLA BLANCO APPLIED TECHNOLOGIC

2. WHAT IS READING? Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of constructing or deriving meaning (reading comprehension). Reading is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Like all language, it is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and language community which is culturally and socially situated.

3. Reading in English is like reading in your native language. This means that it is not always necessary to read and understand each and every word in English. Remember that reading skills in your native language and English are basically the same.

4. TIPS FOR YOU ! Here are four tips to help you improve your reading: 1. Styles of reading2. Active reading3. A tip for speeding up your active reading4. Words and vocabulary

5. 1. Styles of reading There are three styles of reading which we use in different situations: Scanning: for a specific focus The technique you use when you're looking up a name in the phone book: you move your eye quickly over the page to find particular words or phrases that are relevant to the task you're doing. Skimming: for getting the gist of something The technique you use when you're going through a newspaper or magazine: you read quickly to get the main points, and skip over the detail. Use skimming when you're trying to decide if a book in the library or bookshop is right for you. Detailed reading: for extracting information accurately Where you read every word, and work to learn from the text. In this careful reading, you may find it helpful to skim first, to get a general idea, but then go back to read in detail. Use a dictionary to make sure you understand all the words used.

11. Keep your dictionary at hand when you're studying.

12. Look up unfamiliar words and work to understand what they mean.

13. Improve your vocabulary by reading widely.

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16. 1. underline the nouns you find in the previous text using a red pen and the verbs, using a blue pen. 2. what would you suggest to these people? Use the expressions from the previous text.