Reading Comprehension Skill
Mastering Reading Comprehension is important for our live because it can make us criticism in doing reading. This skill lead us to know through the text we read. There are some steps in reading comprehension skill as stated by Mickulecky and Jeffries According to Mickulecky and Jeffries (1992:18) reading comprehension skill as follows:
a. Skimming
Skimming is high-speed reading that can save time and help the readers get through lots of material quickly. It is different from other kinds of high-speed reading, such as previewing, and scanning. By skimming, the readers can get general sense of passage or book, not specific details. The goal in skimming is not to read the text thoroughly, but it is used to find out the kind information that the readers seek, and if it does determine what to read more closely.
Thus, in skimming the text, a reader needs to practice in order he or she can learn the key words and phrases which can cover all the material he or she is reading. To do the skimming, the reader should go through a passage quickly, jumping over parts of it, in order to get a general idea of what it is about.
b. Scanning
Scanning is very high-speed reading that the reader do when they are looking for specific piece of information . When the readers scan, the readers have questions in mind. In scanning, we do not read every word but only key words that will answer our questions.
Scanning is quickly reading to find the specific information Brown (2000:308) stated that, scanning is quickly searching for some particular piece or pieces of information in a text. By scanning, a reader means to glance rapidly through a text either to search a specific piece of information (e.g. name, date) or to get an initial impression of whether the text is suitable for a given purpose. When scanning the reader lets his or her eyes wander over the text until he or she is looking for, whether it is a place, a kind of food, a kind of verb, or specific information. To enable the student to scan effectively, he or she should know what kinds of information he or she need, also, he or she should have the strong belief where he or she will find such information needed from the text.
c. Previewing
Previewing is something that we already do in our daily life. For example, when we receive a letter, we usually look first at the return address or the stamp to find out where it came from and who sent it. Then, we will make some guesses about what it will be about. By previewing for just a few second, we can pick up a great deal of information about the text we are going to read.
By previewing for just a few seconds, we can pick up a great deal of information about the text we are going to read. We can preview any kind of text, including pleasure reading books, magazine articles, tests, and textbook assignments.
d. Close Reading
Close reading requires careful attention to all the words and sentences in a selection to understand its full meaning (Laher and Osborn, 2001:45). After we have skimmed a source and decided to read all or part it closely, we read carefully to comprehend ideas and record information. While these to purposes can undoubtedly overlap, awarness of them as separate activities will help to focus.
e. Guessing from context
Guessing from context is the best strategy to do when we come to a word that we do not know when we are reading. Using prior knowledge of the subject and the ideas in the text as clues to the meanings of unknown words, instead of stopping to look them up.
f. Paraphrasing
Richard and Schmidt (2002:384) state that paraphrase Is an expression of the meaning of a word or phrase using other words or phrases, often in an attempt to make the meaning easier to understand. Paraphrasing stopping at the end of a section to check comprehension by restating the information and ideas in the text.
a. Skimming
Skimming is high-speed reading that can save time and help the readers get through lots of material quickly. It is different from other kinds of high-speed reading, such as previewing, and scanning. By skimming, the readers can get general sense of passage or book, not specific details. The goal in skimming is not to read the text thoroughly, but it is used to find out the kind information that the readers seek, and if it does determine what to read more closely. Thus, in skimming the text, a reader needs to practice in order he or she can learn the key words and phrases which can cover all the material he or she is reading. To do the skimming, the reader should go through a passage quickly, jumping over parts of it, in order to get a general idea of what it is about.
b. Scanning
Scanning is very high-speed reading that the reader do when they are looking for specific piece of information . When the readers scan, the readers have questions in mind. In scanning, we do not read every word but only key words that will answer our questions.
Scanning is quickly reading to find the specific information Brown (2000:308) stated that, scanning is quickly searching for some particular piece or pieces of information in a text. By scanning, a reader means to glance rapidly through a text either to search a specific piece of information (e.g. name, date) or to get an initial impression of whether the text is suitable for a given purpose. When scanning the reader lets his or her eyes wander over the text until he or she is looking for, whether it is a place, a kind of food, a kind of verb, or specific information. To enable the student to scan effectively, he or she should know what kinds of information he or she need, also, he or she should have the strong belief where he or she will find such information needed from the text.
c. Previewing
Previewing is something that we already do in our daily life. For example, when we receive a letter, we usually look first at the return address or the stamp to find out where it came from and who sent it. Then, we will make some guesses about what it will be about. By previewing for just a few second, we can pick up a great deal of information about the text we are going to read.
By previewing for just a few seconds, we can pick up a great deal of information about the text we are going to read. We can preview any kind of text, including pleasure reading books, magazine articles, tests, and textbook assignments.
d. Close Reading
Close reading requires careful attention to all the words and sentences in a selection to understand its full meaning (Laher and Osborn, 2001:45). After we have skimmed a source and decided to read all or part it closely, we read carefully to comprehend ideas and record information. While these to purposes can undoubtedly overlap, awarness of them as separate activities will help to focus.
e. Guessing from context
Guessing from context is the best strategy to do when we come to a word that we do not know when we are reading. Using prior knowledge of the subject and the ideas in the text as clues to the meanings of unknown words, instead of stopping to look them up.
f. Paraphrasing
Richard and Schmidt (2002:384) state that paraphrase Is an expression of the meaning of a word or phrase using other words or phrases, often in an attempt to make the meaning easier to understand. Paraphrasing stopping at the end of a section to check comprehension by restating the information and ideas in the text.