Welcome
To
Today’s Presentation
Reading skill
Nazrul Islam Hossainy
Assistant Headmaster
Bakolia Adarsha Girls’ High School
This note is prepared for
Dear SSC candidates
2015
AIM
The aim of this presentation
is to raise the awareness on
the need to constantly
develop the reading skills of
students.
Session Objectives
 Principles of teaching Reading
• Sub skills of Reading
• The stages of Reading
• Activities of Reading
Our today’s topic is
How to Develop
Reading Skill
What is Reading?
• Reading is a receptive skill
• It involves comprehension
• Reading is not a passive skill
READING FOR CONTENT
INFORMATION
It’s important to say that Ss should
always have in mind the language in
which he wants to analyze or develop
the reading skills.
This presentation centers on the
common strategies for developing
reading skills in English.
The stages of learning Reading
Pre-Reading Stage
While Reading Stage
Post Reading stage
Pre-Reading stage
•Introduced by picture ,
some general questions
•Students answer the
questions from their
prior knowledge
Plan
Pre reading strategies
Establish a good physical environment
Relax and set a positive attitude
Review instructions
Set your purpose
Organize your thoughts
Clarify what you want to have learned
when you finish reading
While Reading Strategies
Be active involved
Check your comprehension as you
read
Restate ideas in your own words
Compare what you are reading to
what you know
Answer the questions and develop
during pre reading questions
Define unfamiliar words
Re –read a portion of the text
POST READING STRATEGIES
Review
Consolidate and integrate information
Answer questions
Test yourself
Space review overtime
Decide what else you need to
know
While Reading stage
•Solve Some new /difficult words
• Ss read the text silently
•Focus questions from the text
Post Reading Stage
•
Teacher gives some extended
tasks
• Students personalize
the topic
Sub skills of Reading
Skimming
Reading for gist
Scanning
Reading for specific information
Inference
Guessing word meaning .
Scanning
Reading for specific information
Scanning
often
comes
before
skimming. For example, scanning
can be used to determine if a
resource has the information you are
looking for. Once the resource is
scanned, it can then be skimmed for
more detail.
Scanning is a reading technic that
one uses to find specific information
without reading the whole text. It
involves looking down and around a
page quickly and efficiently searching
for important words, facts or phrases
to find specific information.
When scanning a text, one should
use peripheral(marginal) vision and
shouldn’t focus only on the logical
flow of the text.
How you scan a text quickly ?
For scanning you can use 5w’sH
method and underline the informative
words of the text.
5w’sH mean
WHO
is used for
PERSON
WHAT is for OBJECT/ANIMAL/BABY
WHERE is for PLACE
WHEN is for
WHY is for
Time/period
Cause/reason
HOW is for Quantity/Prosess
Lutfur (who) is eight years (how) old and
lived in Dhaka (where). He comes from
Tongi (where). He has a brother who
works as a tempo helper. (what) He
came with his father, brother and
grandmother to Dhaka in search of
living.(Why) His father works as a
rickshaw puller (Who/what) and mother
as a domestic worker.(what/Who) Lutfur
collects poly bags, scrap paper and
other
materials (what) from the
Motijheel (where) area and sells
them at a shop (where) for taka 5
to 10 a bag. He earns taka 20 to
50 (how) a day which he gives to
his mother. Lutfur and his family
live in a slum (where) near to
Kamlapur railway station. (where)
Problems with students’ reading strategies
Many students believe that they
need to understand every word in
order to understand the text. They
will read the text very slowly
,thinking about each word. They will
translate each word as they go and
write the translation above the
English. Coming across a word they
don’t recognize
,they will either look in the
dictionary or stop because they
don’t think they can understand
the sentence. They need to be
taught that it is more effective to
look for phrase or word group
rather than individual words.
Skimming
Skimming is a reading technique that provides
understanding of the whole text without reading it
from word to word. It involves discovering the main
ideas of a text by reading first and last paragraphs.
The handsome knight mounted
his horse, and galloped off to
save the beautiful princess. On
and on, over mountains and
valleys, until his galloping
house was exhausted. At last
he dismounted. Where was the
dragon?
What is the text about?
Inference
A village girl was walking along the
snerd with a roggle of milk on her
head. She began saying to herself ,
the money for which I will sell this
milk will make enough money to
increase my trund of eggs to three
hundred. These eggs will produce the
same number of chickens and I will be
able to sell the chickens for a large
wunk of money…..
Inference means,
Guessing the meaning
Step 01” We had a whoosis
What is whoosis?
(1) a tropical fish
(2) an egg beater
(3) a leather suitcase
step 02: We had a whoosis but handle
broke’
(1) a tropical fish
(2) an egg beater
(3) a leather suitcase
Step03:We had a whoosis but handle
broke when we tried to beat an egg
(1) a tropical fish
(2) an egg beater
(3) a leather suitcase
“The ball hit her on the
noggin”. The word “noggin”
should be unfamiliar. But
even without understanding
it , you should know that
the girl was hit with a ball .
You can guess that “the
noggin “ is some part of the
body.
Some Tips
To make easier a text reading
students can follow the technics
Underline important, key words/ sentences.
Highlight words or whole paragraphs
Take notes in a notebook
Draw visual representations of the text
like charts and graphs etc.
Keep some informative key words for
making a new passage like the main
passage.
Make a game by connecting some
sentences & write down.
Sentence connecting game
Slam
helper
Scrap
collect
domestic
In search of
It is involved five simple steps
Survey,
Recall
Question,
Review
Read
S Q 3R
Survey: skim through to gain an
overview and not key points.
: devise questions you hope the
textQuestion
will answer
Read
slowly and carefully.
Recall
from memory, write down the main points
made by the chapter.
Review
Re visit your questions . compare these to your
recall and establish how well the text has
answered them.
Writing answers
Maintaining same tense.
Select information from text.
Start answer with key words.
Health is the condition of our body and mind. It may
be good or bad. Good health means healthy body
free from diseases. It is essential for everyone to lead
a happy life. If we were not in good health, we
cannot concentrate on any activity in our life.
A proverb goes, “Health is wealth’ It means health is equally
valuable as gold or any other personal possessions. We may
have vast wealth and property, but if we are not healthy we
cannot enjoy them. To keep ourselves healthy, we have to do
certain things. We have to eat a balanced diet. We must
exercise regularly to keep our body fit for work.
Q:-What do you know by good health?
T
I
healthy body’
free from diseases
K
you know/ I know
I/We know by good health healthy body’
free from diseases
For Preparation
Reading Test (Similar Passage)
Long ago, a young man (U-1, L-1)
To be a good citizen ( U-1, L-2)
A responsibility is a duty ( U-1, L-4)
May Day or International ( U-3, L-2)
21 February is a memorable ( U-3, L-3)
26 March, our Independence ( U-3, L-5)
Today there many jobs ( U-4, L-5)
Meherjan lives in a slum ( U-5, L-1)
Bangladesh is now apparently ( U-5, L-2)
Human can neither change (U-5, L-3)
Nepal, the land of Everest( U-6, L-1)
India is our closest ( U-6, L-4)
The pioneer of Bangladesh ( U-7, L-1)
It was Autumn, August 26,1910 ( U-7, L-4)
Mother Teresa was moved ( U-7, L-6)
The Shat Gambuj Mosque ( U-8, L-1)
The Somopura Mahoishara ( U-8, L-2)
The Statue of Liberty( U-8, L-3)
Pritilata was born ( U-10, L-3)
Zahir Rahan was ( U-10, L-4)
Eid is the main ( U-12, L-1)
Michael Madhusudan ( U-12, L-3)
The advantage of Internet ( U-13, L-2)
Thanks
to all
&
Wish you good luck