READING STRATEGY What is Reading The active process

READING STRATEGY

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

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

To assist the indifferent or struggling reader, we must work to “dismantle the behaviours … that surround the act of reading. ” (Decker, 1996: 2)

Reading habit A routine behavior performed on a regular basis and recurrent v It should be started from early childhood v mental growth and awareness to read v literacy affects cognition v Commitment generated by belief in the value of reading v 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

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

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

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