Teaching Reading Skills

• Aug 18, 2024

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Teaching Reading Skills

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What is reading?

Reading is a cognitive process. Generally reading is defined as a process whereby as look at and understand what is written. It means understanding a text. To read a written language is called reading.

Why Reading is Important?

The importance of Reading:

✨ Reading helps recognizing the script of language.

✨ Without developing the reading skills, we cannot acquire knowledge.

✨ By reading, vocabulary of the learners can be increased.

✨ Reading helps the readers to understand the meaning of various topics.

✨ Reading helps self-development and forms personality of the learners.

✨ Reading helps developing intelligence and creativeness of the learners.

✨ Reading helps for the recreation of the learners.

✨ Reading helps to introduce the cultural heritage of different nations.

What are the sub skills of Reading?

Sub skills of Reading:

1) Predicting:

Guessing what a text will be about, for example looking at the title, picture or keywords.

2) Skimming:

Reading quickly to understand the main ideas in a text.

3) Scanning:

Reading quickly to find a particular piece of information.

4) Reading for detail:

Reading very carefully to understand as much information in the text.

5) Reading for pleasure:

Reading because you want to and because you are interested in the text.

How many stages for Reading skills we do in our primary English classroom?

Stages of Reading Skills:

There are mainly three stages of reading. They are-

1) Pre-reading: Pre-teaching and practicing vocabulary; predicting topics using pictures; task to engage learners’ interest in the text.

✨ showing text pictures and asking to describe the picture

✨ showing the title and then asking questions about what the text will be

✨ teaching new words which help to understand the text

2) While-reading: Doing reading activities to hold the attention of the students. while-reading (tasks for skimming, scanning and detail; task for focusing on the meaning of difficult vocabulary) activities e.g. jigsaw, quiz, reading race, jumbled texts, running dictation.

✨ Fill in the gaps- Keep the students attentive in reading and check understanding.

✨ Identify True or false- Keep the students attentive in reading.

✨ Exact meaning questions- Teacher can check the understanding of the text.

3) Post-reading: Activities (speaking and writing tasks) for checking students’ understanding.

✨ Teachers may provide some inferred-meaning questions or questions related to students’ own experiences.

✨ Students have to use their own words to answer these types of questions. These questions involve thinking about the text and understanding the links between ideas.