Reading skills-A gateway to Communication skills
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Reading skills involve constructing meaning from texts and are essential for academic and occupational success, impacting grammar, vocabulary, and self-concept. Key components of effective reading instruction include phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. Strategies before, during, and after reading can enhance reading effectiveness, while environmental factors and personal abilities can influence reading skills.
Reading skills-A gateway to Communication skills
- 1. READING SKILLS An Effort By: Tean Zaheer DVM,UAF
- 2. What Reading Skills Are? • Reading is the process of constructing meaning from written texts. It is a complex skill requiring the coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information (Anderson et al., 1985). • Reading skills refer to the specific abilities that enable a person to read with independence and interact with the message.
- 3. Importance Of Reading Skills Reading skills are the key to: • The general knowledge, spelling, writing abilities and vocabulary. • The passion of learning and advancing. • The success in most academic and occupational fields. • Improve grammar and Spellings. • A healthy self-concept.
- 4. Five Pillars Of Reading Instructions • Phonemic Awareness -Ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words. • Phonics- a method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by learning the sounds of letters, letter groups, and syllables.
- 5. Five Pillars Of Reading Instructions Conti… • Reading Fluency - The ability to read with accuracy, and with an appropriate rate, expression, and phrasing. • Vocabulary-having a proficient word power. • Text Comprehension-grasp the ideas behind the text.
- 6. Prosody-Important tool of Fluent Reading • Prosody is reading with expression, with appropriate phrasing, with pitch, stress and emphasis. • Disfluent readers tend to read in a monotonous and choppy fashion with little or no expression and their phrasing is either word by word or involves awkward grouping of words.
- 7. Prosody-Important tool of Fluent Reading • Fluent readers, on the other hand, integrate pitch, emphasis, and the appropriate use of phrasing in their reading. This occurs only as readers become aware of the connection between written and oral language. This indicates their understanding of what they have read.
- 8. Strategies Before Reading • Choose reward. • Specify the time. • Brainstorm, cluster, web, list the things. • Anticipate-Predict the up coming text.
- 9. Strategies Before Reading • Skim-study superficially, glance through chief ideas, including Pre reading, Skim reading & Review Reading. • Predict meaning of new vocabulary in accordance with previous text. • Visualize-forming a mental picture. • Set purpose, goals of reading
- 10. Strategies During Reading • Adjust reading rate. • Predict/support/confirm/adjust. • Scanning-Read between the lines to grasp maximally. • Question. • Monitor understanding. • Reread. • Read/pause/summarize.
- 11. Strategies After Reading • Confirm/adjust predictions • Retell-Memorize. • Skim and reread • Take notes • Make inferences • Reflect on reading • Question
- 12. What Influences Reading Skills & Abilities?
- 13. • Lack of realistic reading goals. • Lack of necessary materials for reading. • Sheer hustle & bustle (Noise). • Lack of combination of physical & mental abilities to read & comprehend. Distractions during Reading
- 14. It is imperative to… • Go for appropriate time & place. • Prevent reading failure • Prevent frustration • Allow flexibility of pacing-the rate of progress. • Avoid stigmatizing(to regard things in a way that show strong disapproval). • Nurture a culture of acceptance