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Intensive type of reading
Intensive reading involves learners reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks. It can be compared with extensive reading, which involves learners reading texts for enjoyment and to develop general reading skills.
Example
The learners read a short text and put events from it into chronological order.
In the classroom
Intensive reading activities include skimming a text for specific information to answer true or false statements or filling gaps in a summary, scanning a text to match headings to paragraphs, and scanning jumbled paragraphs and then reading them carefully to put them into the correct order.
Imagine you’re reading an article on bioluminescence—the light emitted by sea creatures like plankton and fungi that illuminates seawater like a glow stick. Now, as you’re reading about this phenomenon, how much of it do you actually register?
It’s possible that you lose focus when the article mentions a chemical reaction or some scientific terms that you’re not very familiar with. Intensive reading can help you retain more information as you’re reading. Skimming words is not enough. If you want to reap the benefits of reading, you need to understand everything from grammar and vocabulary to the author’s intent and meaning.
Let’s understand the meaning and definition of intensive reading and its benefits.
What Is Intensive Reading?
The meaning of intensive reading is to read with full concentration and complete focus. It’s not about reading book after book or 10 articles a day. Even if you’re reading a single-line quote, you should try to understand what the words are trying to convey.
Intensive reading is one of the most critical skills you can develop to get a better understanding of information. When you have to read a report for work, for instance, you can’t just skim it and call it a day. You have to get a deeper understanding of what’s written, assess the purpose and evaluate the results to make sense of it. Reading intensively will help you tackle complex texts. You’ll be able to strengthen your reading comprehension, vocabulary and language skills.
How To Read Intensively
In school, it was easier to read in bulk and still understand everything. This is primarily because we had more time and fewer worries related to our future. Today, we get distracted for a good hour if someone so much as rings the doorbell. Here are some ways to develop the habit of intensive reading.
Taking Notes
Try to jot down notes and ideas in the margins as you’re reading. Maybe you have a question related to the text or a thought that you want to express. Taking notes is convenient when you reread the text and can be particularly helpful when you’re reading a long report. Add sticky notes with questions, ideas and opinions so you can share them with the author. Not only will you be able to keep track but it’ll also give you something to focus on while you’re reading.
Break Down the Reading Process
A handy trick to intensive reading is breaking it down into three steps—pre-reading, reading and post-reading. The first step is preparation: use your existing knowledge to understand the purpose of the text. The second is the actual reading process that’s supplemented by note-taking. The final step is what comes after you’re done reading. This is where you summarize all the information, ask questions and get your thoughts in order.
Apply What You’ve Learnt
It’s not enough to simply keep the information to yourself and forget about it the next day. If you can find ways to use that information, you’ll be able to retain it for much longer. For instance, if you’re reading a report on achieving sales targets, you can make notes that you can later share with your team. These can include points to look out for, strategies for advertising and other ideas that crop up as you read.
You’ll find that there are many advantages of intensive reading. It increases your efficiency and saves time in the process. You’re able to focus on one task and deliver improved results.
Some examples of intensive reading are:
Articles or editorials in magazines like The Economic and Political Weekly
Blog posts on various topics ranging from science and technology to art and culture
Short stories or poetry with layers of meaning
Business reports packed with important information, numbers and data
Analyzing statistical data like diagrams, images and tables
Reading is a joyous experience that you can share with others. When you read something interesting, you can even have informative discussions with your friends and colleagues. Intensive reading will help you tackle everything from office communication to current news.
Harappa Education’s Reading Deeply course will teach you more about the three steps of reading. It’s designed for people who want to improve their reading skills and understand different kinds of information. Learn how to summarize information, present ideas and interpret different texts to improve your performance at work.
Explore topics such as the Importance of Reading, Types of Reading, Levels of Reading, How to Improve Reading Skills & What is Extensive Reading from our Harappa Diaries section and improve your reading skills.
There is no doubt that reading skills are important for language learners as it is the most efficient ways to expand learners’ vocabulary and improve their grammar knowledge. Reading is practical and enjoyable. Two complementary strategies can significantly strengthen reading skills and general language fluency: extensive reading and intensive reading. 
Extensive Reading
What is Extensive Reading?
The author of the categories of reading in ELT, Brown (1989), states that extensive reading is done «to achieve a general understanding of a text.» Extensive reading can be referred to as “reading for fun”. To read extensively means to read simple, enjoyable books to boost reading speed and fluency. A learner can do it at his/her own ability level, with a comfortable speed, choosing longer texts to the taste. The main aim of extensive reading is to build one’s confidence and pleasure.
What are the advantages of extensive reading?
The learners may become more motivated to read and develop such a habit, they may feel more autonomous in their learning, expand their vocabulary, acquire grammar structures they face in texts and increase their competence in that away.
What are the possible challenges?
Extensive Reading may be time-consuming. Sometimes students may feel discouraged by more difficult texts and meeting unknown words. Learners also may pay too much attention to the number of pages they read instead of on the understanding they achieved. 
What can be read?
As the core demands for extensive reading are authenticity and simplicity of the materials used, we are to choose from Graded Readers series (here you can find out more on Graded Readers), texts on the same topic, cultural magazines, books with quite short chapters, stories which include repetition, comic books (here you can find plenty of them). Materials for reading should bring pleasure and minimize frustration for language learners. 
What is the role of a teacher in it?
The teacher recommends on reading materials and appropriate levels of those, guides the learners in setting goals for amounts read, leads pre-reading activities to awake interest in the text and to stimulate curiosity, encourages to read without the use of a dictionary.
What activities may occur?
interviewing each other about the reading
writing newspaper reports, reviews based on the read material
book exchange
reading journals
retelling of a part of the text to get others interested in reading
Intensive Reading 
What is Intensive Reading?
Intensive reading is short (it is best to limit intensive reading sessions with all activities to 30-35 minutes maximum) and very focused activity with the goal is to understand everything. It requires great concentration and attention to minor details. It’s a type of reading where testing and increasing knowledge are primary. Such reading often includes taking notes. Brown (1989) explains that intensive reading «calls attention to grammatical forms, discourse markers, and other surface structure details for the purpose of understanding literal meaning, implications, rhetorical relationships, and the like.»
What are the advantages of intensive reading?
It provides a base to study definite grammar structures, vocabulary, idioms. Learners can develop greater control of language. It improves reading skills. It gives a teacher an opportunity to evaluate the students and modify his/her teaching methods.
What are the possible challenges?
The text may be not interesting or not to the level of a student as everyone in the class is reading the same material. It is not always fun and can demotivate reading in general. The pace is not graded. 
What can be read?
Everything we have in the coursebooks, reports, news articles, blog posts, short stories (not more than 500 words in length), Wikipedia articles.
What is the role of a teacher in it?
The teacher chooses suitable texts, tasks and activities, gives directions, encourages students without giving answers.
What activities may occur?
identifying the main ideas and details
answering the questions
identifying words that connect one idea to another
discussing particular words and grammar structures
looking for the vocabulary on the definite topic
true/false statements
information transfer
sentence completion