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Reading Strategies

The document discusses the importance of reading and writing as macro-skills in language learning, emphasizing their cognitive processes and interactions with texts. It outlines strategies for reading, including scanning and skimming, and highlights the benefits of reading for vocabulary development and writing skills. Additionally, it features an activity for students to practice these skills through group work and questions related to texts.

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Reading Strategies

The document discusses the importance of reading and writing as macro-skills in language learning, emphasizing their cognitive processes and interactions with texts. It outlines strategies for reading, including scanning and skimming, and highlights the benefits of reading for vocabulary development and writing skills. Additionally, it features an activity for students to practice these skills through group work and questions related to texts.

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READING & WRITING

Reading
Strategie
s
Ma’am Dianne M.
Pron
Guess this Song!
Guess the title of the song that you will be listening to.
1. Drivers License
2. You Need To Calm Down
3. We Are The Champions
4. Best Part
5. What I Was Made For?
6. Easy On Me
7. Never Be Enough
8. New Rules
IN/Complete?
Instructions: Group together the song titles based on
their similarities.
The Process of Learning
1 Language (L1)
st

( ( (
Listen to those ( Make Utterances ( Reading (
around us (speak) Writing

Reading
}
Receptive Speaking Productive
Listening Skills Writing } Skills
Learning language is said to require the acquisition of Macro-skills. These
macro-skills can only be completed by acquiring one skill at a time. These are
the following macro-skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (along
with Viewing).

In this subject, these two macro-skills are in focus:

Reading is a cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning from a


text; an interaction between the text and the reader (Capangpangan, 2017)

Writing is a skill that allows the transfer of idea from the abstract [the mind] to
a tangible material as an output (Capangpangan, 2017)
Text as a Discourse
Let us review the following terminologies:

Sentences- group/s words that express a complete thought.


has a subject and predicate

Paragraphs- group/s of sentences that discuss one thought.


- has main idea or topic sentence and supporting details
Text as a Discourse
The following components of a paragraph or text are also to be
reviewed:

Main Idea- refers to the subject that is being talked about in the
paragraph.

Topic Sentence- contains the Main Idea

Supporting Details- further explain, elaborate and substantiate


what the Main Idea is
Activity:
Instruction: Using the given text, practice scanning and
skimming through the provided questions below.
How Pearls are Made
The oyster sometimes swallows something
hard that it cannot remove. To prevent this
from doing harm, the oyster covers it with
layers of a fine, white substance. This soon
hardens and becomes a glistening white
little ball which has great value as a precious
jewel. This is the way a pearl is created.
(Source: Barce, Griego & Morales, 2016;
Reading and Writing)
Questions:
Questions:
1. What sea creature is highlighted in the text?
2. To which was the little ball compared to?
3. What is produced by the oysters’ cleaning of itself?
4. At end, how are pearls produced?
Questions:
1. Which question/s require of specific answers which can
be directly lifted from the text?
2. Which question/s require a summary of the text?
2 kinds of Fast Reading:
Scanning- to look for specific information by having the idea
of the details of what is looking for. This is the skill which we
use when we look for information in a menu, telephone
directory and/or lists.
2 kinds of Fast Reading:
Skimming- to look for the main point of the reading and
identify the ideas that develop it. This is used to get the
gist of the text—what the text is talking about.
Read Fast!
The students will be divided into groups. Each
group will read the given texts to scan and
skim. The students should be able to answer
the questions as fast as they can; the group
who gives the answer first gets the point. The
team which gets the most answers win the
game.
My Favorite Poet

Literature of any language is adorned by its poetry, because poetry can convey the meanings beyond
word using a few words. My favorite poet is William Wordsworth, a pioneer of romantic poetry in
English literature. He had the courage and conviction to break away from the set rules and
regulations of classical poetry and form his own poems independently. He wrote in the language of
‘humble and rustic people’. And the poetic subjects in his poems are simple and impressive. He
experienced the profundity of innocence and simplicity of children and declared ‘child is the father of
man’. Nature appealed to him as mystic and majestic presence which always casts an impact on
human mind. His poetry draws us back in the soothing lap of nature from this world of teens and
travails. In his love for nature he calls nature the ‘the nurse, the guide, the guardian of my heart/and
the soul of all my moral being.’ He has this firm faith that close contact with nature can make us more
human, kind and generous to our fellow beings. His poetry is sensitive, impressive and educative too.
Among his famous poems, ‘The Solitary Reaper, Lines on Tin tern Abbey, On Westminster Bridge
and Daffodils’—I like ‘The Daffodils’, the best. In it, describing the beautiful daffodil flowers, he
conveys how nature can be a perpetual source of joy and solace to human heart. I always derive
some inspiration and calm from his poetry.
1. What is said to convey meanings beyond words using few words?
2. What is the best poem for the persona in the text?
3. What is said to be the source of joy and solace to human heart?
4. What does the persona derive from the poet’s poem?
5. Who is the favorite poet of the speaker in the text?
6. Why does the persona like William Wordsworth’s poems?
READING WRITING
READING
Define according to two types (Lapp and Flood, 1978)
1. A decoding process (breaking down of written codes)
2. A comprehension process
READING PROCESS
WHY DO WE READ?
• To develop a broad background
• To anticipate and predict
• To create motivation and interest
• To build a good vocabulary
• For pleasure and enjoyment
BENEFITS OF READING
• Exposes readers to accurate spelling and create forms of writing
• Shows readers how to write more complex sentences.
• Invites readers to be more experiential in their own writing
• Allows reader to hear thoughts of others
• For pleasure and enjoyment
Thank
you!

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