What is Reading and Vocabulary

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What is Reading?


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a multifaceted process involving word recognition,comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn howreaders integrate these facets to make meaning from print.

Reading is making meaning from print. It requires that we:

Identify the words in print a process called wordrecognition

Construct an understanding from them a process called

comprehension Coordinate identifying words and making meaning so that

reading is automatic and accurate an achievement calledfluency


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Sometimes you can identify words without being able toconstruct much meaning from them. Read the opening lines

of Lewis Carroll's poem, "Jabberwocky," and you'll see whatwe mean.

'Twas brillig , and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

Finally, sometimes you can identify words and comprehendthem, but if the processes don't come together smoothly,

reading will still be a labored process. For example, tryreading the following sentence:


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It isn't as if the words

are difficult to identify or

understand, but the spaces

make you pausebetween

words, which means yo

ur

reading is lessfluent.


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Reading in its fullest sense involves weaving together wordrecognition and comprehension in a fluent manner. Thesethree processes are complex, and each is important. Howcomplex? Here goes?

To develop word recognition, children need to learn: How to break apart and manipulate the sounds in words

this isphonemic awarenessexample:feethas three sounds: /f/, /e/, and /t/

Certain letters are used to represent certain sounds

this isthe alphabetic principleexample: sand hmake the /sh/ sound


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How to apply their knowledge of letter-soundrelationships to sound out words that are new to them this is decodingexample: ssssspppoooon spoon!

How to analyze words and spelling patterns in order tobecome more efficient at reading words this iswordstudyexample: Bookwormhas two words I know: book and worm.

To expand the number of words they can identifyautomatically, called their sight vocabularyexample: Oh, I know that word the!


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To develop comprehension, children need to develop: Background knowledge about many topics

example: This book is about zoos that's where lots ofanimals live.

Extensive oral and print vocabulariesexample: Look at my trucks I have a tractor, and a fireengine, and a bulldozer.

Understandings about how the English language works

example: We say she wenthome, not shegoedhome.Understandings about how print works

example: reading goes from left to right


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Knowledge ofvarious kinds of textsexample: I bet they live happily ever after.

Various purposes for readingexample: I want to know what ladybugs eat.

Strategies for constructing meaning from text, andfor problem solving when meaning breaks downexample: This isn't making sense. Let me go back andreread it.

To develop fluency, children need to:


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Develop a high level of accuracy in word recognition

Maintain a rate of reading brisk enough to facilitatecomprehension

Usephrasing and expression so that oral readingsounds like speech

Transform deliberate strategies for word recognition andcomprehension into automatic skills

But if reading isn't pleasurable or fulfilling, children won'tchoose to read, and they won't get the practice they needto become fluent readers.


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Therefore, reading also means developing andmaintaining the motivation to read. Reading is an activeprocess of constructing meaning?the key word here is active.

To develop and maintain the motivation to read, children need

to:Appreciate thepleasures of reading

View reading as a social act, to be shared with others

See reading as an opportunity to explore their interests

Read widely for a variety ofpurposes, from enjoyment togathering information

Become comfortable with a variety of different written formsand genres


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WHAT IS VOCABULARY

1. The body of words used in a particular language:

Sentence:A comparison of the vocabularies of different languages.

Sentence: The Sanskrit vocabulary

The words used in a particular subject or sphere of activity or ona particular occasion:

Sentence: the vocabulary of law


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[mass noun]:

The term became part of business vocabularythe body of words known to an individual person:

Sentence: he had a wide vocabulary

A list of difficult or unfamiliar words with an explanation oftheir meanings, accompanying a piece of specialist or foreign-language text.

2. A range of artistic or stylistic forms, techniques, or

movements:

Sentence: dance companies have their own vocabularies of

movement


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HOW TO IMPROVE

VOCABULARY?


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Become actively receptive to new words. Read more

Add the new words you meet in your reading to yourown vocabulary

Write more Read the dictionary

Do word puzzles and play word games


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Set a goal

Open your mind to new ideas Make looking up 10 words in the dictionary a day

a habit Read the newspapers everyday


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THANK YOU

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