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

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“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.