Developing a Reading Strategy: Intensive vs. Extensive Reading …
Mar 17, 2025 · In this article, we’ll explore the differences between intensive and extensive reading, their benefits, and how to effectively incorporate both into your language learning …
Intensive Reading - A Guide to Deep Text Analysis
Nov 21, 2025 · I’ll share intensive reading examples, a ready-to-adapt intensive reading lesson plan, and my favourite intensive reading activities from 12+ years of teaching and training with …
ESL Lesson Plan Intensive Reading Exercise - ThoughtCo
May 13, 2025 · The lesson involves reading sentences closely to find vocabulary mistakes and contradictions, enhancing comprehension. Students discuss their findings and edit vocabulary, …
Intensive reading | TeachingEnglish | British Council
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 …
Research Guides: Interrogating Texts: Reading Strategies
Sep 2, 2025 · Here's how to make your reading thinking-intensive from start to finish: Throw away your highlighter: Highlighting can seem like an active reading strategy, but it can actually …
Intensive Reading vs. Extensive Reading: A Language Learner’s …
Imagine picking up a short, dense text, just 1-3 pages long. As you go through each line, you carefully examine every word, break down the grammar, and absorb new vocabulary. This is …
What is Intensive Reading? Tips and Benefits for Language Learners
Jul 23, 2024 · Texts that are best suited for intensive reading include academic articles, classic literature, technical manuals, scientific papers, and any other materials that require detailed …
Effective Intensive and Extensive Reading for Language Learning
Aug 7, 2023 · Blog posts, news articles and any pieces of short text are ideal for intensive reading practice. Additionally, children’s books work well at the beginning of intensive reading programs.
Intensive Reading for Main Ideas and Details – Academic Reading …
Effective readers can bypass, or ignore secondary details and focus only on relevant details; for example, clarifying examples, important statistics, and other information that helps explain the …
Intensive vs Extensive Reading: Which Is Better? - StoryLearning
In this post I'm tackling a fantastic question from a listener to the StoryLearning podcast about intensive vs extensive reading. Let's explore which reading approach will serve you best, …