Presentation 5 points I give book tasks about 3 times a year. We also know our reading purpose - what we want to take from the text. Our expectations and our reading purpose will decide the best reading style. Pre-reading activities help students to develop their expectations and decide the best reading style. Reading aloud is a difficult, slow and inefficient method of decoding the meaning of a written text.
Eyes can read much faster than mouths.
In mother tongue we try not to 'mouth read' because it is too slow. Learners of English often sub-vocalise. They like to 'listen silently' to the words they are reading because it helps comprehension. These factors will decide your reading style - whether you will read quickly or slowly, whether you will read every sentence in sequence or whether you will jump around, whether you will start at the beginning or in the middle. They then read word by word, until the reach the end of the text.