1. What are the four styles of reading?

- Skimming.

- Scanning.

- Intensive.

- Extensive.

2. Why do you think these reading skills or styles are important in reading comprehension?

- When you read, you exercise your comprehension abilities and your analytical abilities. It fires up your imagination and stimulates the memory centers of your mind. It helps recall information as well as stabilize your emotions. The importance of a reading habit is that it strengthens mental muscles.

3. Among the four reading styles, which do you think will help you the most as a student?

- To improve students' reading comprehension, teachers should introduce the seven cognitive strategies of effective readers: activating, inferring, monitoring-clarifying, questioning, searching-selecting, summarizing, and visualizing-organizing.

4. As a student, how can these reading styles help you in reading texts?

- Skimming

Skimming will help you grasp the general idea or gist of a text. You might quickly read the table of contents, the headings or the abstract. You could also read the first and last paragraphs and the first and last sentence of each paragraph in a relevant section.

- Scanning

Scanning allows you to locate precise information. You might identify a key terms or expressions which will alert you to where your subject is being addressed. You could then run your eyes over a text looking for these.

- Detailed reading

Detailed reading allows you to critically consider aspects of the text. This may involve close reading of the entire text, or of important sections of the text.

- Revision reading

This involves reading rapidly through material with which you are already familiar, in order to confirm knowledge and understanding.