RE

AD

ING

SK

ILL

S

An Effort By: Tean ZaheerDVM,UAF

What Reading Skills Are?• Reading is the process of constructing meaning

from written texts. It is a complex skill requiring the coordination of a number of interrelated sources of information (Anderson et al., 1985).

• Reading skills refer to the specific abilities that enable a person to read with independence and interact with the message.

Importance Of Reading Skills

Reading skills are the key to:•The general knowledge, spelling, writing

abilities and vocabulary.• The passion of learning and advancing.•The success in most academic and

occupational fields.•Improve grammar and Spellings.•A healthy self-concept.

Five Pillars Of Reading Instructions

• Phonemic Awareness -Ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words.

• Phonics- a method of teaching people to read and pronounce words by learning the sounds of letters, letter groups, and syllables.

Five Pillars Of Reading InstructionsConti…•Reading Fluency - The ability to read

with accuracy, and with an appropriate rate, expression, and phrasing.

•Vocabulary-having a proficient word power.

•Text Comprehension-grasp the ideas behind the text.

Prosody-Important tool of Fluent Reading•Prosody is reading with expression, with

appropriate phrasing, with pitch, stress and emphasis.

•Disfluent readers tend to read in a monotonous and choppy fashion with little or no expression and their phrasing is either word by word or involves awkward grouping of words.

Prosody-Important tool of Fluent Reading

• Fluent readers, on the other hand, integrate pitch, emphasis, and the appropriate use of phrasing in their reading. This occurs only as readers become aware of the connection between written and oral language. This indicates their understanding of what they have read.

Strategies Before Reading

•Choose reward.

•Specify the time.

•Brainstorm, cluster, web, list the things.

•Anticipate-Predict the up coming text.

Strategies Before Reading • Skim-study superficially, glance through chief

ideas, including Pre reading, Skim reading & Review Reading.

• Predict meaning of new vocabulary in accordance with previous text.

• Visualize-forming a mental picture.

• Set purpose, goals of reading

Strategies During Reading

•Adjust reading rate.•Predict/support/confirm/adjust.•Scanning-Read between the lines to grasp

maximally.•Question.•Monitor understanding.•Reread.•Read/pause/summarize.

Strategies After Reading

•Confirm/adjust predictions•Retell-Memorize.•Skim and reread•Take notes •Make inferences•Reflect on reading •Question

What Influences Reading Skills & Abilities?

• Lack of realistic reading goals.• Lack of necessary materials for reading.• Sheer hustle & bustle (Noise).• Lack of combination of physical & mental

abilities to read & comprehend.

Distractions during Reading

It is imperative to…

•Go for appropriate time & place.•Prevent reading failure•Prevent frustration•Allow flexibility of pacing-the rate of

progress.•Avoid stigmatizing(to regard things in a

way that show strong disapproval).•Nurture a culture of acceptance