READING SKILLS

Definition of Reading Skills

1. abilities to:

• understand

• interpret

written texts

2. important for:

• comprehending meaning (various types of written material)

3. beyond decoding words, they involve:

• range of cognitive processes and strategies

• contribute to effective reading and comprehension

Component of Reading Skills

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1. decoding

2. vocabulary development

3. fluency

4. comprehension

5. critical thinking

Decoding

1. translating letters (symbols) into spoken sounds

2. foundational skill that allows recognise and pronounce words

3. importance:

• forms basis understanding written language

• for comprehension

1. activity:

• phonemic awareness (identify and manipulate individual sounds)

• phonics instructions (linking sounds to lettersj

• recognising sight words

• applying spelling patterns

Vocabulary Development

1. learning/understanding meaning of words

2. importance: comprehension & expressing

3. activities:

• context clues

• explore synonyms, antonyms

• idiomatic expressions

Fluency

1. read accurately, smoothly

2. reflects how readers navigate through the text

3. importance: understanding content instead of word recognition

4. activities: repeated reading, partner reading, choral reading, timed reading, practicing proper intonation and expression

Comprehension

1. understanding & making meaning

2. extracting information

3. identifying main ideas

4. grasping author’s message

5. activities:

• predicting

• questioning

• summarizing

• connecting

• visualizing

• inferring

Critical thinking

1. analysing, evaluating, interpreting

2. importance: engage with texts on deeper level

3. activities:

• identify bias

• evaluate credibility sources

• comparing viewpoints

• supporting opinions

Skills required for reading comprehension

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1. predictive skill (pictures, titles, headings and text)

2. skimming (gist) & scanning (keywords)

3. inferring (use what i know to guess using evidence & reasoning) (clues in book + own thinking)

4. recognising pattern

5. meaning from context (hints in sentence, paragraph or passage)

6. main ideas (primary concept) and supporting details (that explains/defines/proves main idea)

7. use of dictionary/thesaurus