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01 Basic Reading Skills

The document provides an overview of the reading process, including the skills used in each stage (pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading). It discusses basic reading skills like skimming, scanning, locating the main idea, summarizing, and paraphrasing. The stages of the reading process and basic reading skills are explained through examples.

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01 Basic Reading Skills

The document provides an overview of the reading process, including the skills used in each stage (pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading). It discusses basic reading skills like skimming, scanning, locating the main idea, summarizing, and paraphrasing. The stages of the reading process and basic reading skills are explained through examples.

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The Reading

Process
Objectives
Analyze a sample text using different reading
strategies. (C03)

• Identify the purposes, types, and categories of


reading;
• Identify the skills used in each of the stages of the
reading process
• Gain knowledge on basic reading skills(skimming,
scanning, locating main ideas, summarizing,
paraphrasing); and
• Effectively apply these reading skills appropriately.

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What is Reading?

Complex cognitive process

Highly visual

Interactive process between the writer


and the reader
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Reading Process

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Pre-reading While-reading

Post-reading
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Reading Process
• Skills to Use Before Reading
• Previewing
• Freewriting
• Surveying (Survey it to get an overview of what
Pre-reading •
will be coming.)
Questioning
• Making assumptions about the author
• Identifying the purpose
• Selecting a reading system (SQ3R –
survey, question, read, recite, review)

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Reading Process
While-reading • Skills to Use While Reading
• Getting the meaning of words through context
clues
• Predicting
• Inferencing
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• Monitoring comprehension
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• Annotating the text
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• Reflecting

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Reading Process
Post-reading • Skills to Use After Reading

• Reflecting
• Summarizing
• Paraphrasing
• Drawing conclusions
• Making graphic organizers
• Journal Writing
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Basic Reading
Skills

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Basic Reading Skills

Skimming Scanning
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Skimming: Get the main idea

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Basic Reading Skills

Locating the main idea

Levels of Idea in a Paragraph

MAIN IDEA
Major Details
Minor Details

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Locate the main idea.
There are societies where fathers play an active role in
child care. For example, according to Ziarat Hossain and
colleagues, Navajo fathers invest about 60 percent as
much time as mothers do in direct caregiving tasks. The
father role has shifted primarily from an economic
provider to a more balanced partner, including playing,
emotional bonding, and child-rearing. Fathers’
investment in child care varies tremendously across
families depending on cultural values.

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Locate the main idea.
As with other forms of artistic expression, the functions of dance are
culturally variable. Dance is likely to function in a number of different
ways both between and within societies. Dance often performs
several functions simultaneously within a society, but some
functions are more prominent than others. To illustrate, dance can
function psychologically by helping people cope more effectively
with tensions and aggressive feelings; politically by expressing
political values and attitudes, showing allegiance to political leaders,
and controlling behavior; religiously by various methods of
communicating with supernatural forces; socially by articulating and
reinforcing relationships between members of the society; and
educationally by passing on the cultural traditions, values, and
beliefs from one generation to the next.
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Locate the main idea.

Petroleum products are damaging to the environment


when they leak or spill on land. Leaking underground
fuel tanks have polluted groundwater, contaminating
drinking water and destroying plant and animal life.
Poisonous fumes from petroleum spills are hazardous to
the health of humans as well as other animals and also
create potential fire hazards.

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Locate the main idea.

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Locate the main idea.
The functional activities of cells that result in growth,
repair, energy release, use of food, and secretions are
combined under the heading of metabolism. One
process of metabolism is called Anabolism. It is the
building up of complex materials from simpler ones such
as food and oxygen. Another process of metabolism is
called Catabolism. This is the breaking down and
changing of complex substances into simpler ones, with
a release of energy and carbon dioxide. The sum of all
the chemical reactions within a cell is therefore called
metabolism.
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Basic Reading Skills

Scanning

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Basic Reading Skills

A reader looks over a material and focuses


on the information he/she finds relevant.
Involves clarifying the purpose, reading
the title and headings, checking the
illustration, and browsing (inspecting
unhurriedly the table of contents,
introduction or summary).
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Basic Reading Skills

Understanding of ideas and facts that are


directly stated in the printed material
• Note-taking
• Paraphrasing
• Summarizing

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Basic Reading Skills

Deducing of facts and ideas not directly


stated in the text
Making generalizations, inferences, and
conclusions

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Basic Reading Skills

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Basic Reading Skills

Out of the corner of her eye she is watching


the woman opposite her put on makeup.

She sits down heavily, head in her


Hands.

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Basic Reading Skills

The close and thorough evaluation of the


claims in the text in terms of relevance,
validity, and logic.

• Distinguishing facts from opinions


• Detecting logical fallacies

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Why do people read?
To be informed

To be entertained

To be inspired
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Types of reading are defined
and classified according to
purpose.

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Let’s Practice!
Read the article for 20 seconds.
Answer the questions that follow.

Title: CAAP upgrades air traffic


system
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/666952/c
aap-upgrades-air-traffic-system
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Let’s Practice!

What is the main idea of the news


article?
Who is the CAAP Director General?
Which system is upgraded by CAAP?
How much was the cost of the project?
How old was the air traffic system to be
replaced?
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