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Assignment on Reading skills

Reading skill

skills

Nature of reading

Effective reading

Activities

of reading

Principles of reading

Methods of

reading

Conclusion

Four Skills of language TeachingListening:

Listening is an active process by which students receive. Construct meanings and respond to spoken messages.

Speaking:Communication is the process of transferring signals/messages between a sender and a receiver through various methods (written words, nonverbal cues, spoken words).

WritingWriting skills are an important part of communication.  Good writing skills allow you to communicate your message with clarity and ease to a far larger audience than through face-to-face or telephone (1)

ReadingReading is a process of extracting of meanings from a written printed skill. It turns the reader to turn writing into meanings and achieve the goal of information.

BACK

The text should be accessible to the students.Tasks should be clearly given in advance.

Tasks should be designed to encourage reading for the main meanings rather than testing the students understanding of details.

Tasks should help Pjjthstudents to develop students’ reading skills.Teachers should help the students to read to their own, so they eventually become independent readers.

Principles of Reading

• The text should be accessible to the students.• Tasks should be clearly given in advance.• Tasks should be designed to encourage reading

for the main meanings rather than testing the students understanding of details.

• Tasks should help the students to develop students’ reading skills.

• Teachers should help the students to read to their own, so they eventually become independent readers.

What Effective readers do?

Have a clear purposeRead silentlySkim the rest, and skip the insignificant partsRead phrase by phrase, rather than word by wordHave and use background information to help understand the textGuess the meaning of new words from the context.

Reading Comprehension Skills

Methods Of ReadingThere are five methods of reading.Anticipation:Distinguishing the main idea from supporting details; Skimming:Skimming involves reading for the main idea. Scanning: Reading to look for specific information.Predicting: Guessing what is coming next.SQ3RSurvey the text, make questions, read text and finally review it to enhance reading.

Pre- reading activities

While reading activities

Post reading activities

Reading skill activities

Pre- reading activities

The purpose of pre-reading (also called Lead-in) is to facilitate while-reading activities.

Predicting: There are three ways of predicting.Predicting based on title or picture.Predicting based on vocabulary.Predicting through questions.

Predicting through Vocabulary:Vocabulary can be given to students to predict what is coming next. Crow, Pot, stones, thirsty, garden

While-reading ActivitiesWhile- reading activities focus on the process of understanding rather than the result of reading.• Read the text• Information transfer activities• Understanding references

Underline the pronounsOnce there was a crow. He was very thirsty. He flew here and there in search of water. At last he reached in a garden. He saw a pot in the garden. He saw that water was very low in the surface of pot. He thought a plan. He dropped stones in the pot one by one. The water level in the pot came up. He drank the water and flew away happily.

Post reading activitiesPost reading activities task should enable students to produce language based on what they have learned.Gap-filling ActivityWhat can be the moral of the story.

Fill in the blanks

Once there was . He was very . here and there in search of water. At last he reached . He saw in the garden. He saw that in the surface of pot. He thought a plan. He dropped in the pot one by one. in the pot came up. the water and flew away .

ConclusionThe teaching of reading should focus on developing students’ reading skills and strategies.

Reading should be an interactive process. Reading in the classroom can be divided into three stages: pre-reading

activities, while reading activities and post reading

activities.