Reading skills Cristiane de Brito Cruz How do

Reading skills Cristiane de Brito Cruz

How do we read ? Some assumption about the nature of reading. 1 st “We Assumption: need to perceive and decode letters in order to read words. ” Try to read this:

Instructions for driving STEP 1: Look at the floorboard; you'll see three pedals. From left to right, they are: clutch, brake, gas. STEP 2: Study the simple diagram on the top of the gearshift, which will show you where the gears are. In most new cars, this will look like a three-legged H. First, third and fifth gears are at the tops of the legs; second, fourth and reverse gears are at the bottoms. The crossbar of the H is neutral. STEP 3: Make sure the parking brake is engaged and the car is on a flat surface in an area where you have plenty of room. STEP 4: Press down on the clutch pedal and then move the gearshift into the neutral position. STEP 5: Start the car. STEP 6: Keeping the clutch pedal down, put the car into first gear by moving the gearshift to the top-left position. STEP 7: Apply the foot brake and release the parking brake. STEP 9: Begin to release the clutch pedal slowly; when you hear or feel the engine begin to slow down, slowly press down on the gas pedal as you continue to release the clutch. The car will start to move forward. http: //pt. scribd. com/doc/24548/Instructions-to-Drive-a-Car

Did you understand the whole meaning of the text? Was it difficult? Easy?

Try to read now STEP 1: Look at the floorboard; you'll see three pedals. From left to right, they are: clutch, brake, gas.

STEP 2: Study the simple diagram on the top of the gearshift, which will show you where the gears are. In most new cars, this will look like a three-legged H. First, third and fifth gears are at the tops of the legs; second, fourth and reverse gears are at the bottoms. The crossbar of the H is neutral.

STEP 3: Make sure the parking brake is engaged and the car is on a flat surface in an area where you have plenty of room.

Thinking about it We do not only have to perceive and decode letters in order to read words for reading a text. As you can see we can understand by the context – images, images our knowledge about the subject and so on.

How do we read ? Some assumption about the nature of reading. 2 nd “We Assumption: need to understand all the words in order to understand the meaning of text. ”

Try to read this next text and answer the 2 questions proposed.

How does a baby get to be obese? By Madison Park, CNN/ June 27, 2011 -- Updated 1340 GMT (2140 HKT) (CNN) -- A 4 -year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp. "He was carrying so much weight, he displaced his hips, " recalled Dr. Elsie Taveras, co-director of the Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School. The boy, boy an extreme example of childhood obesity, obesity carried more than 100 pounds and had a body mass index that was over the 99 th percentile for his age group. He is part of a disturbing trend among the youngest Americans Poor diet, diet huge portion sizes, lack of physical activity, activity inadequate sleep and uninformed parents are contributing to larger numbers of overweight or obese young children.

Answer the questions What does the text talk about? ( ) obesity prevention policies ( ) childhood obesity ( ) Babies It discusses about infants from. . . ( ) Brazil ( ) England ( ) United States Did you need to know all the words from the text to answer these 2 questions?

How do we read ? Some assumption about the nature of reading. 3 rd Assumption: “The more symbols (leters, words) there are in a text , the longer it will take to read it. ”

Did it take too long for you to understand the previous text?

Try this one Green Laser's Light! It may not be able to fight the powers of evil quite yet, but a cell line expressing green fluorescent jellyfish protein is the first living laser, no fancy extraterrestrial Green Lantern ring needed. Harvard researchers found that a single such cell generates a bright beam of narrowband, directional laser light when pumped with nanojoules of energy in nanosecond pulses. Lasers usually rely on materials like semiconductors, doped crystals, synthetic dyes, and purified gases. Having a biological version could open up plenty of medical applications, such as novel imaging techniques and photodynamic therapy, the researchers reported in Nature Photonics. -- C. P. http: //www. medpagetoday. com/Lab. Notes/27126

Try this one Green Laser's Light! It may not be able to fight the powers of evil quite yet, but a cell line expressing green fluorescent jellyfish protein is the first living laser, no fancy extraterrestrial Green Lantern ring needed. Harvard researchers found that a single such cell generates a bright beam of narrowband, directional laser light when pumped with nanojoules of energy in nanosecond pulses. Lasers usually rely on materials like semiconductors, doped crystals, synthetic dyes, and purified gases. Having a biological version could open up plenty of medical applications, such as novel imaging techniques and photodynamic therapy, the researchers reported in Nature Photonics. -- C. P. http: //www. medpagetoday. com/Lab. Notes/27126 Easy words but what about the meaning of the text?

How do we read ? Some assumption about the nature of reading. 4 th Assumption: “We gather meaning from what we read. ” 5 th Assumption: “Our understanding of a text comes from understanding the words of which it’s composed. ” Remember last text?

How long does is take you to read it ? 1. X, P, T, A, Q, E, W, T 2. Jam, hot, pin, call, did, tap, son, tick 3. How quickly can you read and understand this? YOU READ QUICKER. . .

THE LAST ONE. WHY? BECAUSE: 1. Reading the 1 st you just decoded letters; 2. Reading the 2 nd you just understood words; 3. Reading the 3 rd you got the meaning!

Read quickly The handsome knight mounted his horse, and galloped off to save the beautiful princess. On and on, over mountains and valleys, until his galloping house was exhausted. At last he dismounted. . . Where was the dragon?

DID YOU NOTICE WHERE THE HOUSE IS ?

Read quickly The handsome knight mounted his horse, and galloped off to save the beautiful princess. On and on, over mountains and valleys, until his galloping house was exhausted. At last he dismounted. . . Where was the dragon?

What happened here was that you just did not only read the text but you added some of you on the reading. You know that the HORSE should be exhauted after the galloping.

How do we read ? Some assumption about the nature of reading. Let ‘s revise all the assumptions: We need to perceive and decode letters in order to read words. (YES/ NO) We need to understand all the words in order to understand the meaning of text. (YES/ NO) The more symbols (leters, words) there are in a text , the longer it will take to read it. (YES/NO) We gather meaning from what we read. (YES/NO) Our understanding of a text comes from understanding the words of which it’s composed. (YES/NO)

Reading skills In order to read efficiently you should use thecniques: thecniques Skimming – read it and comprehend the whole message: Scanning – look for specif information Semantic mapping or clustering – join in ideas from the text. Guessing – meaning of words can be guessed (inferred) through context.

Reading skills Predicting – you predict when you antecipate what the text will bring = if there’s a picture; by the first sentences and so on. (You are using your background knowledge) knowledge Looking at pictures, symbols etc. Cognates, Not-cognates, False cognates There are words who are similar to portuguese but they mean differently. Let’s see this on the text:

How does a baby get to be obese? By Madison Park, CNN/ June 27, 2011 -- Updated 1340 GMT (2140 HKT) (CNN) -- A 4 -year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp. "He was carrying so much weight, he displaced his hips, " recalled Dr. Elsie Taveras, co-director of the Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School. The boy, boy an extreme example of childhood obesity, obesity carried more than 100 pounds and had a body mass index that was over the 99 th percentile for his age group. He is part of a disturbing trend among the youngest Americans Poor diet, diet huge portion sizes, lack of physical activity, activity inadequate sleep and uninformed parents are contributing to larger numbers of overweight or obese young children.

Let’s show these thecniques with this text: Skimming: The text is about childhood obesity Scanning the text: Find how weight the baby was : 100 pounds. Find probable nationality of the babies: American Semantic mapping or clustering: Baby/ poor diet/ lack of physical activity/ inadequate sleep/ uniformed parents = obesity Guessing: “A 4 -year-old lumbered into a Boston pediatric clinic. He walked with a limp. ” (the child was really sick and went to the clinic with urgency/ the child entered into the clinic/ the child cried/ and so on) http: //dictionary. cambridge. org/dictionary/british/lu mber_1? qlumber: to lumber=to move slowly and lumber awkwardly

Predicting: The baby’s photo = you may thing it will bring something about babies/ mothers/ etc. Cognates/ Not-cognates/ false cognates: Cognates: pediatric clinic/ co-director / Obesity Prevention Program/ Medical / extreme example/ obesity/ mass index / percentile / disturbing / diet/ etc. Not-cognates: lumbered / into/ Boston. /He/ walked/ with /limp. / was/ carrying/much/ weight/ etc. False cognates: displaced/ a/carried/ body/ age/parents

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