This document discusses strategies for pre-reading, during reading, and developing reading skills. It describes several pre-reading prediction activities like making predictions based on prior knowledge, titles, and content words. During reading activities mentioned include reading aloud, making predictions while reading, and revising those predictions. Developing key reading skills like scanning, identifying main ideas, and sequencing events is also discussed. The overall document provides an overview of important pre, during, and post reading strategies and skills for teachers to develop strong reading comprehension.
This document discusses strategies for pre-reading, during reading, and developing reading skills. It describes several pre-reading prediction activities like making predictions based on prior knowledge, titles, and content words. During reading activities mentioned include reading aloud, making predictions while reading, and revising those predictions. Developing key reading skills like scanning, identifying main ideas, and sequencing events is also discussed. The overall document provides an overview of important pre, during, and post reading strategies and skills for teachers to develop strong reading comprehension.
This document discusses strategies for pre-reading, during reading, and developing reading skills. It describes several pre-reading prediction activities like making predictions based on prior knowledge, titles, and content words. During reading activities mentioned include reading aloud, making predictions while reading, and revising those predictions. Developing key reading skills like scanning, identifying main ideas, and sequencing events is also discussed. The overall document provides an overview of important pre, during, and post reading strategies and skills for teachers to develop strong reading comprehension.
This document discusses strategies for pre-reading, during reading, and developing reading skills. It describes several pre-reading prediction activities like making predictions based on prior knowledge, titles, and content words. During reading activities mentioned include reading aloud, making predictions while reading, and revising those predictions. Developing key reading skills like scanning, identifying main ideas, and sequencing events is also discussed. The overall document provides an overview of important pre, during, and post reading strategies and skills for teachers to develop strong reading comprehension.
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PREDICTION AS PRE-READING
ACTIVITY
Prediction is one of the many
good strategies in pre-reading. This is an important strategy in the pre-reading stage than in the during reading stage. Before we begin to read a text, we usually have an idea of what the text is about. Sample Activities on Prediction:
A. Prediction based on prior knowledge.
This activity shows how predictions based on knowledge can facilitate learner's understanding of the text. This is helpful because what a learner already knows about the subject may enable them to comprehend new information. B. Making predictions from the title. Predicting from the title is a strategy which is common in the classroom. This practice helps one decide if the text is likely to interest learners or not. This allows learners to predict the content of the story which also may trigger the critical aspect of their minds. C. Making predictions based on Content Words. Content words help learners guess salient points of the selection, the plot, the message, the characters, etc. DURING READING ACTIVITIES As the name suggests, during-reading activities are activities done while the actual reading of the text is done. These activate processing and encourage close reading. THE ART OF STORY READING One of the most important factors in the success of reading process is story reading. Once the reading of the story fails, the entire reading process also fails. Hence, it is important that the story reading should be taken with much care. It is the burden of the teacher to sustain the interest of the learners in the reading activity and to lead them to full appreciation to reading. READING ALOUD AS A DURING- READING ACTIVITY Learners do not learn to comprehend by reading aloud. Majority of the psycholinguists believe that learners who read aloud concentrate on two activities – word recognition and comprehension. The tendency among learners is that they need to sacrifice one of these two and oftentimes, comprehension is sacrificed. It suggests two ways of strategically using Reading Aloud in the classroom.
Read aloud to your students as they
follow along silently. You have the ability to use inflection and tone to help them hear what the text is saying. Following as you read will help students move from word-by-word reading to reading in phrase and thought units, as they do in their first language. Use the “read and look up” technique. With this technique, a student reads a phrase or sentence silently as many times as necessary, then looks up (away from the text) and tells you what the phrase or sentence says. This encourage the students to read for ideas, rather than the for word recognition. MAKING PREDICTIONS WHILE READING This is most applicable to reading narratives like stories. However, this can also be applied in some expository texts. This is done by dividing the text into several parts and by raising questions about what may happen next in the story. Revisions of this style may be done by asking comprehension question about the previously read part of the text. DEVELOPING READING SKILLS
Teaching reading involves
developing different reading skills. Teachers ought to develop at least one of these skills; otherwise, the entire reading process will be frivolous. These reading skills include:
1. Scanning for specific information
2. Making predictions while reading 3. Revising predictions while reading 4. Identifying main ideas and supporting details 5. Sensing cause-effect relationship 6. Sequencing events 7. Articulating main ideas 8. Synonyms and Antonyms