READING STRATEGY

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READING STRATEGY
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What is Reading?

• - The active process of understanding
• print and graphic text.
• The process of constructing meaning
• A thinking process
• As students progress to school,
• complex informational and graphic
• text should be read
• - Capacity to use text is the key to
• students success

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Reading strategy

• A plan or approach selected deliberately
• by the readers to achieve specific
• objective or complete tasks
• (Paris, Lipson Wixson, 1983 Paris,
• Wsik, Turner, 1991)
• able to select and being independent
• in reading
• use literacy for lifelong learning and
• enjoyment

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• To assist the indifferent or struggling reader,
• we must work to
• dismantle the behaviours
• that surround the act of reading.
• (Decker, 19962)

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Reading habit
A routine behavior performed on a regular basis
and recurrent

• It should be started from early childhood
• mental growth and awareness to read
• literacy affects cognition
• Commitment generated by belief in
• the value of reading
• Reading routines
• - Set aside time (as much and as often
• possible), such as in the morning,
• mid-day and in the evening
• for reading
• - come to the book fair
• - make trips to a bookstore or the
• library a part of your routine
• - consider more than just one books

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What are your reading strategies?
How do you develop your Reading habit?
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Scanning

• a fast-paced reading skill
• is used if you start with a predefined set
• of word and want to find out in the text
• you leave through the text and search your
• keywords in the passages
• Information can be obtained from a text
• without reading every word
• Looks for number, letters, steps, or
• the words first, second or next, words that
• are bold faced, italics, different font size,
• style or color
• Readers should not try
• to read the entire passage carefully

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Scanning

• Looks for number, letters, steps, or
• the words first, second or next, words
• that are bold faced, italics, different
• font size, style or color
• Readers should not try
• to read the entire passage carefully