1. READING STRATEGY

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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