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This document discusses several essential reading skills: identifying the main idea, supporting details, skimming, scanning, and making predictions. The main idea is the central point of a passage. Supporting details provide additional information to better understand the main idea. Skimming involves looking for general ideas without reading every word, while scanning means quickly looking for specific information. Making predictions requires using clues and prior knowledge to anticipate what may happen next in a text.

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Topic 1 - Basic Reading Skills

This document discusses several essential reading skills: identifying the main idea, supporting details, skimming, scanning, and making predictions. The main idea is the central point of a passage. Supporting details provide additional information to better understand the main idea. Skimming involves looking for general ideas without reading every word, while scanning means quickly looking for specific information. Making predictions requires using clues and prior knowledge to anticipate what may happen next in a text.

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BASIC READING SKILLS

In Teaching Literature
April Grace T. Borja

Main Idea Skimming Scanning


Supporting Details Making Predictions
What is Main
Idea?
The Main Idea of a paragraph is what all
the sentences are about.

The Main Idea is the central point a


writer makes about a topic.
How to find the Main
Idea?
1. Identify the topic of the selection.

2.Think about what the writer is


saying about that topic.
3. Main Idea can be located in the
first sentence or topic sentence, you
may also find the main idea in the
middle or even the end of the
paragraph.
4. If you do not see a specific sentence
that states the main idea, read the
entire selection.
They're eager for all kinds of activity, and
they enjoy keeping busy. Poodles are
very intelligent and easily trained to do a
number of things. Some of the activities
that Poodles enjoy are tracking, hunting,
agility, and obedience. The Poodle can
accommodate nearly any size living
quarters. The Poodle is an active breed
and requires daily exercise. Poodles are
very people-oriented and must be an
integral part of their owner's life to be
happy.
What is
Supporting
The Details?
Supporting Details help you to
better understand the main idea.

It answers the questions of Who, What,


When, and Where.
Why do we need
Supporting
Details?
Supporting details help you get a better
picture of the story.
They give you more information.
This information helps you understand what
you are reading.
Niagara Falls is one of the beautiful sight
in North America. It is on the Niagara
River halfway between Lake Ontario and
Lake Erie. Niagara Falls is located on the
American and Canadian border. The
American Falls is 167 feet high. On the
Canadian Side, the Horseshoe Falls is
161 feet high.
Niagara Falls is one of the beautiful sight
in North Amerika. (a)It is on the Niagara
River halfway between lake Ontario and
Lake Erie.(b) Niagara Falls is located on
the American and Canadian border.
(c)The American Falls is 167 feet high.
(d)On the Canadian Side, the Horseshoe
Falls is 161 feet high.
What is
Skimming?
Skimming is a reading technique meant to look for
main or general ideas in a text, without going into
detailed and exhaustive reading.

The function of using skimming technique is to get an


overview of a text and get main points.
Examples of
Skimming in
Literature
The Dashwood family settles in Sussex for too
long, and has a large estate. The late owner of
the estate leaves everything for his nephew Mr.
Henry Dashwood and his family. Mr. Henry
Dashwood has one son, John from his former
marriage and three daughters, Elinor, Marianne,
and Margaret from his current wife. John is lucky
to have inherited wealth from his mother’s side,
too.
In his will, old Dashwood leaves everything for
Henry’s son, but nothing for his wife and daughters.
John promises his dying father to take care of his
step-mother and sisters. But, in fact, John is selfish
and cold-hearted man who marries a selfish woman.

After Henry’s death, without informing her mother-


in-law, John’s wife steps into her house to take
control.  Mrs. Dashwood feels her behavior so
ungracious, but her elder
Elinor has good understanding, while Marianne is
sensible, amiable, and prudent. Margaret, on the
other hand, is a well-disposed and good-humored
girl.

“The family of Dashwood had long been


settled in Sussex… bid fair to equal her
sisters at a more advanced period of
life.”
The speaker sees a little black child
working as a chimney sweeper who is
crying among the snow. He asks him about
his parents and child tells him they have
gone to church to praise God for his
condition.
Since he seems them happy and does not want
to do this terrible job, his parents force him to do
this job, it makes him cry. The child holds
government, church, and his parents
responsible for his suffering and miserable life.

“A little black thing among the snow…


Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
What is
Scanning?
Means looking through to quickly find information
and is one way to read text quickly.

 Helps understand the article’s main points.


 It will make easier to critically read the piece
and to develop questions.
 It help you decides if there are any unfamiliar
concepts or terms that you need to study up on
before you read the piece.

 Enables you to understand what the author is


building up.
Examples of Scansion/Scanning in Literature

Example #1: Hope is the Thing With Feathers


(By Emily Dickinson)

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all …
Making
Predictions
 Making prediction is more than just guessing
what will happen next in the story
 A prediction is a reasonable or logical guess
about what might happen next in a story.
Predictions should be based on facts or details
in the text. Using knowledge you have of the
material presented may help you make
correct predictions.
For readers to predict

outcomes, they must -
look for the reason for actions
 find implied meaning

sort out fact from opinion

 make comparisons
The Importance of
Making Predictions
 Helps students to ask questions while they are reading.

Encourages students to skim or re-read portions of the


story to better understand it or to recall facts about the
characters or events.

 Provides a way for students to monitor their


understanding of the material.
Strategies for teaching
Making Predictions
 For younger children, look at the pictures before reading
the book, including the front and back covers of the book.
 Create a prediction diagram.
 Use magazine ads or pictures in a book and make
predictions about people.
 Watch a film and stop it part way through. 

 Use "What would I do?" techniques. 

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