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Unit 6: Reading Skills- To Enhance Independent Reading

6.2.3 Reading Efficiency notes

It combines reading speed and reading comprehension. Jacobs suggested the following formula
to calculate reading efficiency score (Res):
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Caution Res = Reading speed × Comprehension

Example: If the reader with the reading speed of 80 words per minute understands and
comprehends 80% of the material read, reading efficiency score will be 64. For another reader,
having the reading speed of 480 words per minute, if the comprehension rate is 60 percent, the
reading efficiency score will be 288.

6.2.4 retention

It refers to the ability to recall the read material after a lapse of time. It can also be termed as
memory power. It is one of the essential skills, which needs to be improved by a reader. Some
people are good readers but their retention power is poor, that is, they are unable to learn and
recall the read material.

self assessment

Multiple Choice Questions:

3. Which of these is not an important component of reading skills?
(a) Comprehension
(b) Listening
(c) Retention
(d) Reading speed

4. If you can read can a paragraph that contains 240 words in 360 seconds, your reading speed
is …………………
(a) 30 words per minute
(b) 40 words per minute

(c) 45 words per minute
(d) 60 words per minute
5. The type of reading in which a reader goes through the entire document, but usually skips
the details:
(a) Careful
(b) Rapid
(c) Skimming
(d) Scanning

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