Reading Skills and S ...

Adler and Van Doren (1972) identified four major levels of reading, which are: elementary reading, inspectional reading, analytical reading, and syntopical reading. The researchers (ibid.) highlighted the importance of naming them levels and not kinds because, according to them, kinds can be distinct from one another while levels denote a notion of embeddedness with lower levels included in higher ones. In other words, levels of reading are cumulative. (Kharbach, 2017)

The operational objectives :

To identify the four main levels of reading, as put by Adler and Van Doren (1972), to define them clearly and to spot out the difference between them.