Reading skills

OBJECTIVES:
The sessions on reading aim to…


 * activate reading skills and sub-skills at the level of proficiency and pedagogy
 * cultivate interest in reading and to inculcate effective reading habits
 * develop creative and critical thinking skills using interesting, relevant texts
 * develop new techniques and to design tasks and activities to enhance second language learners’ reading skills
 * assess learners’ reading skill

COMPONENTS
SESSION 1: Using pictures for developing reading in young learners

SESSION 2: Reading tasks and activities for beginners

SESSION 3: Big books, Authentic materials and high frequency words

SESSION 4: Strategies for promoting reading comprehension

SESSION 5: Assessment of Reading

“Reading is to mind what exercise is to the body”(Richard Steele)

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” (Edmund Brurke)

Being able to READ, to connect the meanings/ideas between words and between sentences can help the learner to understand a text. READING is not merely decoding. The learner should be able to decode, but also become a meaning-maker, a text-user and a text critic. Reading occupies a very significant place in one’s life. It is considered the most effective means of learning a language, especially English. Lord Bacon, the famous essayist has rightly said, “Reading maketh a full man”.

These sessions emphasize on developing reading skills both at the proficiency level and the pedagogical level by introducing various discourses to enhance reading-skills, updating latest teaching methods, exploring and interacting with the text-book.

