Unit
5
Reading
“Reading
is a process of constructing meaning from written texts. It is a complex skill
requiring the coordination of interrelated sources of information” (Stanley,
2007)
Reading is one of the four languages skills, it
is a receptive skill. This means it involves responding to text, rather
than producing it. Reading involves using different readings skills, they
include: reading for specific
information or scanning,
reading for gist or skimming, reading for detail, inferring, deducing meaning from context,
predicting and
understanding text structure.
Finally, I can say that reading is a complex process which involves understanding letters, words and
sentences, understanding different text types, making sense of the text through
our knowledge and using the appropriate
reading subskill.
In order to apply
this skill in the classroom I would like to say that reading is very important
for me as a student and as a teacher, and for learners, too because reading
helps learners and me to practice vocabulary. So, for that reason I must promote
the reading habit to the learners through extensive reading which learners often do. For example,
in the classroom we can read a story which be interesting for learners (catch
their attention) and we can use different strategies that would be easy for
learners understand the story as for example, Previewing which involves reviewing titles, section headings, and pictures
to get a sense of the structure and content of the story, and skimming and
scanning. Finally, if I help them in that way they love reading and they in the
future will improve their knowledge.
It is a video that show us a useful strategy to read.
- National Capital Language Resource Center (NCLRC). (n.d.). The essentials of language teaching. Retrieved April 23, 2007 from http://nclrc.org/essentials.
- Stanley, S. (2007). An Analysis of Rx for Discovery ReadingRTM for Elementary Students Below Average in Reading.
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