Reading

Reading

1. Reading Skills

   • Skill
     • Sight recognition to be familiar with the script of the language
     • The phonetic skill to understand the relation between the sounds and the letters
     • Guess the meaning of the unfamiliar word from the context
   • To understand
     • The sentences structures
     • The explicit and implicit information
     • The logical order and relation of the sentences and paragraphs
     • Main and the sub-themes of the text
   • To develop skill
     • summarising
     • referring to a dictionary
     • note making
     • transferring the information

2. Reading Strategies

   • Skimming
     • It is pre-reading exercise
       • It helps to encourage further detailed reading
     • It's a good exercise to get a global gist or summary to understand the thematic pattern
   • Scanning
     • Useful for getting the specific information from the text
     • It's a quick exercise to look for a specific word in the dictionary.
     • To get the answer for a specific question from the text.
   • Intensive reading
     • It's a detailed reading activity.
       • based on occuracy
     • It covers the areas of local, global and factual information.
     • It's needed to interpret legal and medical documents
   • Extensive Reading
     • It is a global activityt
       • For pleasure reading of novels, stories etc.
     • Reading for enjoyment

3. Types of the Reading

   • Silent Reading
     • Very important technique of reading
     • The learner
       • Develop the ability to read by sense group than the individual words
       • To develop speed, reading should be timed
       • Avoid these drawbacks
   • A learner
     • Must master the phonics of correct
       • Pronunciation
       • accent
       • stress
       • Pause
       • Intonation pattern of the language
   • Loud Reading
     • It is audible to others
     • The teacher
       • Read loudly which should be followed by the class
       • Can get cassettes recorded in the voice of good readers of English

4. Types of the comprehension

   • Global
     • Ability to understand the overall organisation of the text
     • To understand the main theme and the sub-themes of passage
     • Activities to give the tittle of the give pasage, the main and the sub points.
   • Local
     • The ability to understand the individual points of the explicitly stated information
     • The tasks find the name of the characters, particular details of some specific information from the passage
   • Referential
     • To get factual information from the text referring to the different partsof the text
   • Inferential
     • Ability to infer from the facts, which are not stated explicitly
     • Relationship between the features of the text
     • Problem solving activity
   • Evaluative
     • To judge accuracy acceptability value of the statements by the author
     • The tasks whether you agree or disagree with the statement

5. stages of classroom teaching of reading

   • Pre-reading stage
     • Teacher should try to relate the subject with learners own experience, interest and needs
     • Discussions relating to the topic to arouses the curiosity of the learners
   • Reading stage
     • Explain the idiomatic expression
     • Explain the different terms based on the culture
     • Short passage of the text
     • Anticipate the problems of the learners
     • Explain the new or difficult struture with examples
     • Give a glossary
     • Select short story
   • Follow-up stage
     • Put challenging questions to the learners
     • The questions should cover all comprehension skills
     • Task
       • True or false. Fill in the bank, Diagram Graph, Summary of the text
       • Reorganise the jumbled sentences and paragraphs
       • Select the topic sentence from the paragraph of the text