UNIT 5; READING

 READING

Reading is a receptive skill. Also, it is the process of looking at a series of written symbols and getting meaning from them. Trough it you receive information and understand what the text is about. To gain our reading skill successfully it is better to use different reading subskills. Scanning (reading for specific information), reading for detail (getting meaning from the text), deducing meaning from the context (to get meaning from the unknown word), understanding text structure (understand the types of text is develop), skimming (get a general idea), inferring (get meaning from the context ), predicting (to guess what a text may be about). Also, in the chapter we discussed about the extensive and intensive reading. Extensive reading (reading for pleasure), it is long pieces of text; article and story. While the intensive reading is reading for language study. In reading skill we can find some activities that will be developed step by step: first, Pre- reading, while reading and Post- reading. To teach students is better find appropriate activities that follow the reading lesson. Also, the reading subskills are important here because students need to be familiar with of them. After that, I will give to the students some texts where they can read silently and understand what the text is about. Then, I make groups and ask them to share ideas from the text.

References for more information

Reading (process)

·         Wikipedia,. (2015). Reading (process). Retrieved 22 April 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)

What Is Reading? An Excerpt from Reading for Understanding - National Writing Project

·         Nwp.org,. (2015). What Is Reading? An Excerpt from Reading for Understanding - National Writing Project. Retrieved 22 April 2015, from http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/787

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