Global Reading

Skills and Sub-

Skills
 What is Global?
• Spherical
• Relating to, or involving the entire world
• Worldwide a Global system of
communication also
 Global Reading Skills and
Subskills
• Word recognition skills
• Reading comprehension
• Word Identification
 Word Recognition Skills

• Is necessary to be able to read. It is a two fold

process that includes; the recognition of
printed symbols by some method that can be
pronounce
 Reading Comprehension
• Is a complex intellectual process
involving many skills like understanding
the context, making inferences, weaving
idea into context, etc.
 Word Identification
• Such as whole word recognition, visual
configuration, morphemic analysis, meaning
associations graph phoneme
Grace Godell’s Reading skills ladder
• Basic sight words
• Using phonetic analysis
• Using contextual clues
• Vocabulary building
• Finding the main idea
• Finding the supporting details
 Grace Godell’s Reading skills ladder

• Interfering meanings, drawings, conclusions.

• Classifying and organizing facts
• Using parts of the books
• Using the dictionary
• Using the encyclopedias and other reference books
 Grace Godell’s Reading skills ladder

• Borrowing library books for research and employment

• Starting your private library collections
• Exposure to reading to mass media
• Reading from the internet
 Quiz.
• 1. a complex intellectual process involving many skills
such as understanding.
• 2. is necessary to be able to read
• 3.visual configuration such as a whole word recognition.
• 4-8. list at least 5 steps in vocabulary building.
• 9. a program or additional activities above instruction in
having reading skills.
• 10. are also called high frequency sight words.
 What are the basic sight words?
• Also called high frequency sight words
• They are commonly used words that young
children are encourage to memorize as a whole by
sight, so that they can automatically recognized
these words without having use of any strategies to
decode.
 Dolch Sight Words

• Are the 220 most frequently found words in

books that children read
 Phonetics Analysis

• A branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the

sounds of human speech
• Phonetics analysis – is based on the traditional
classification of speech sounds using IPA or the
International Phonetic Alphabet
 Using structural Analysis

• The process of using familiar word parts

(base words, prefixes and suffixes) to
determine the meaning of unfamiliar words
 Using contextual clues

• Hints that the author gives to help define a difficult

or unusual word. The clue may appear within the
same sentence as the word to which it refers, or it
may be in preceding or subsequent sentence.
 Types of context clues
• Synonym – word with the same meaning is used in the sentence
• Antonyms – word or group of words that has the opposite
meaning reveals the meaning of an unknown term.
• Explanation – the unknown word is explained within the
sentence or in a preceding sentence.
• Examples – specific examples are used to define the term
Examples:
1. Synonym: “ opponent's argument is fallacious, misleading –
plain wrong!”
2. Antonyms: “although some men are loquacious, others
hardly talk at all.”
3. Explanation: “the patient is somnolent that she requires
medication to help her stay awake for more than a short time.”
4. Examples: Celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon and the
stars, are governed by predictable laws.
 Vocabulary building

• According to language expert W.B. Elley “ a

rich vocabulary is a valuable asset and an
important attribute of success an any walk of
life.”
 Steps to vocabulary building

• READ, READ, READ.

• REPEAT WORDS SEVERAL TIMES
• LOOK AT WORDS WITH THE MIND OF
A CHILD
• HAVE FUN WITH PLAYING WORD
GAMES
• MAKE IT PERSONAL
• USE IMAGINATION TO CREATE
IMAGES OF THE WORD
• PRACTICE USING ELABORATION
 Finding the Main Idea

• It is the “key Concept” being expressed

• Understanding the topic or gist of a larger
conceptual framework of a textbook chapter
• The main idea sentence of a paragraph tells what
the paragraph is about.
 3 types of paragraphs

• INTRODUCTORY – It tells in advance the main ideas

of the chapter or paragraph
• TRANSITIONAL – it ties together what you have read
so far.
• SUMMARAZING – restates briefly the ideas of the
paragraph or chapter.
 Finding the supporting details

• Details, major and minor, support the

main idea by telling how, when, what
where why and who or even how many.
 Interfering meanings, drawing conclusion

• Drawing conclusions refers to information that is

implied or inferred.
• It means that the information is never clearly
stated, but from what you know, it makes sense to
think that it has happened.
 Classifying and organizing facts

• Separating various things on the basis of some

criteria
• Organizing facts are how to classify the facts and
how to use the classification to arrange those facts
in a particular rational order.
 Using parts of a Book

1. TITLE PAGE
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. GLOSSARY OF A BOOK
4. INDEX OF A BOOK
 Using the Dictionary

• Is a collection of words in one or more

specific languages, often listed alphabetically
• Also called Lexicon
 Using the Encyclopedias and other reference
book
• Is a type of reference work – a compendium
holding a summary of information from either all
branches of knowledge.
• Borrowing library books for research
and employment
• Starting your private library collections
• Exposure to reading to mass media
• Reading from the internet
 INTEGRATION: THE KEY
PROCESS
• INTEGRATION – To form, coordinate or
blend into a functioning or unified whole.
• Integration of reading skills are additional
activities above instruction which uses to help
students use their reading skills such as Grace
Godells’ Reading skills Ladder.
 Integrated Reading Skills

• Integrated reading skills promote deep

comprehension and analysis of the texts. It
helps students gain experiences with grade
level texts and skills using interaction and
engagement.