What Is Reading?

- Is an interactive process
- Involves decoding the meaning of the text
(usually classroom based)
- Reader is intensely involved in looking inside
the text
- Students focus on linguistic or semantic
details of a reading
- Students focus on surface structure details
such as grammar and discourse markers
- Students identify key vocabulary
 Objectives
- To be entertained
- To get the gist of a text/ the main idea (skimming)
- To locate specific information (Scanning)
- To learn and further your understanding of
something (full comprehension)
- Other reasons
- To gain deeper understanding of a text
- To expand your vocabulary
- To improve your own writing skills
 Speed of Reading
- Slow readers
- Fixate on every word (several fixations per line)
- Take in one word at a time
- Vocalize the words
- Do regression
- Read 150-200 words per minute
- Have small span of vision
- Average readers
- Take in more than one word at a time
- Have fewer fixations per line
- Read 300- 400 words per minute
- Have larger span of vision
- Fast readers
- Have few fixations per line
- Take in 2- 4 words at a time
- Read 600-1000 words per minute
- Have large span of vision
- Have periphery vision
Visual Aids
Graph
- Is a diagram showing the relationships
between two or more things
- Facilitates comprehension
- Can affect the representation of information
1- Bar graph
- Shows relationship between groups
- bars can be plotted vertically
or horizontally
2- Line graph
- Shows continuing date
- Shows how one thing is affected by another
- Example
- How children’s height and weight
change over time
3- Circle (pie) graph
- Shows how a part of something is
related to the whole
- Shows percentages effectively
Diagram
- Represents
- Ideas
- Processes
- Working parts of an object
- Parts of a system
- Human body
Table
- Displays various kinds of information
in rows and columns
- percentages
- Facts
- Numbers or related information
- Is useful for quick reference
Flow-chart
- Shows the step by step procedures
- Shows the top to bottom stages or
steps in a process