TEACHING READING SKILLS

TEACHING READING SKILLS

1. READING SKILLS

   • THE SKILL OF SIGHT RECOGNITION
     • THE PHONETIC SKILL
       • THE SKILL TO GUESS
         • THE LEARNER SHOULD KNOW THE MORPHOLOGY AND RULES OF A WORD FORMATION
         • TO GUESS THE MEANING OF THE UNFAMILIAR WORD FROM THE CONTEXT
       • TO UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOUNDS, AND LETTERS.
     • TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCRIPT OF THE LANGUAGE, THE SHAPES OF THE WORDS IN PRINT AND THE GRAPHIC SYMBOLS OF PUNCTUATION.

2. READING STRATEGIES

   • SKIMMING
     • SCANNING
       • INTENSIVE READING
         • EXTENSIVE READING
           • IS A GLOBAL ACTIVITY. IT IS MEANT FOR PLEASURE READING OF NOVELS, STORIES ETC
         • IT IS A DETAILED READING ACTIVITY. IT IS BASED ON ACCURACY
       • THIS IS USEFUL FOR GETTING THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT. IT IS A LOCAL ACTIVITY.
     • IT IS A PRE-READING EXERCISE. IT HELPS TO ENCOURAGE FURTHER DETAILED READING.

3. TYPES OF READING

   • LOUD READING
     • IT IS AUDIBLE TO OTHERS. A LEARNER MUST MASTER THE PHONETICS OF CORRECT PRONUNCIATION, ACCENT, STRESS, PAUSES AND INTONATION PATTERN OF THE LANGUAGE.
   • SILENT READING
     • THE LEARNER SHOULD DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO READ BY SENSE GROUP THAN THE INDIVIDUAL WORDS.

4. TYPES OF COMPREHENSION

   • GLOBAL COMPREHENSION
     • LOCAL COMPREHENSION
       • REFERENTIAL COMPREHENSION
         • INFERENTIAL COMPREHENSION
           • EVALUATIVE COMPREHENSION
             • IT REFERS TO THE ABILITY TO JUDGE ACCURACY, ACCEPTABILITY VALUE OF THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.
           • IT IS TO DEVELOP THE ABILITY TO INFER FROM THE FACTS, WHICH ARE NOT STATED EXPLICITLY.
         • IT REFERS TO THE ABILITY TO GET THE FACTUAL INFORMATION FROM THE TEXT REFERRING TO THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE TEXT
       • IT REFERS TO THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE INDIVIDUAL POINTS OF THE EXPLICITLY
     • REFERS TO THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE OVERALL ORGANISATION OF THE TEXT

5. STAGES OF CLASSROOM TEACHING OF READING

   • PRE-READING STAGE
     • READING STAGE
       • FOLLOW-UP STAGE
         • THE TEACHER SHOULD PUT CHALLENGING QUESTIONS TO THE LEARNERS.
       • THE TEACHER SHOULD BEGIN WITH SHORT PASSAGES OF THE TEXT
     • THE TEACHER SHOULD MOTIVATE THE LARNERS