1. READING TECNIQUEs

2. Facilitator Mahbuba Farjana, BA (Hons) in English; MA in Eng. Lit. DU
( Course on English Pronunciation from Monash University ,Australia)
DPD Guchhogram project ,
(Deputy Secretary)
Ministry of Land

3. Lecture outline Why reading ? What makes an effective reading?
6/20/2018
Why reading ?
What makes an effective reading?
Vocabulary Development
Bottom up Top down processing
Reading for IELTS
Reading Task Types: IELTS
Exercise

4. Why read? What benefits does reading give us?

5. Oprah Winfrey…on reading…
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
Born in rural Mississippi to a poor teenaged single mother, Oprah Winfrey was raped at the age of nine, and at fourteen, gave birth to a son who died in infancy. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. She is one of the most influential woman in the world. Oprah openly acknowledges the role of reading in her life and promotes reading on her shows. It has been claimed that Oprah’s Book Club has forged a link between social responsibility and literature and brought reading to masses of Americans.
And by the way, she’s using new technology (TV) to support old technology (books)!

6. Reading is life’s great second chance…
Reading provides inspiration and the source for a way of life.

7. What makes an effective reading?

8. Before You Read This is the preparation stage
Time and care taken before reading will make the actual reading experience easier

9. Set A Purpose Decide why you are reading this information:
To make a decision?
To create something?
To help you?
For amusement?

10. Before Reading Set a speed Preview Activate prior knowledge
Write down wonders
Set a speed

11. Preview Read headlines and subtitles
Look at pictures and other graphics; read captions
Skim side bars
Read section outline in textbooks and articles

12. During Reading
Now that you have prepared your brain, you are ready to read
Remember: “READING IS THINKING”
Use effective strategies to help you make sense of what you are reading

13. Activate Prior Knowledge
consider what you already know about the subject
think about connections to other knowledge you possess

14. First Gear Slow, thoughtful reading
Use when the text is complex or difficult
Use when you are reading to remember important information
Use when you are going to take action

15. Second Gear Relaxed reading Use when reading for pleasure
Use when the text is fairly simple for you
Example: reading a novel or magazine

16. Third Gear Skimming the text
Use when you need basic answers or information quickly
You don’t have to read every word, until you locate the information you need

17. Fourth Gear Scanning the text rapidly
Use when looking for a particular word or concept
Your eyes move quickly over the page until you find what you are looking for

18. Bottom up processing Starting from sounds and letters to make meaning
Identifying words and structures
Focus on vocabulary, grammar, organization

19. Vocabulary Development
Using a dictionary
Recognizing word forms
Identifying affixes and roots
Understanding collocations
Guessing meaning from context

20. Top down or bottom up?
Schema building to activate background knowledge
Comprehend discourse structures
3. Underline a grammar structure or verb tense
Skip over vocabulary words you don’t know
Write the number of a paragraph where you find the answer

22. Reading For IELTS
In everyday life we use different strategies or approaches to read different texts. A What is skimming? We use this approach when we are looking for a specific piece of information or specific words.

23. Reading For IELTS
B What is scanning? When we use this approach we read a text very quickly. C What is reading or detail? When we use this approach we read every word in a text and think carefully about the meaning of every sentence

24. Reading Task Types: IELTS
Multiple choice
Fill in the blank
True-False
Matching
Sequencing
Completing a graphic organizer
Short answer
Completing a table/Sentence
Sorting or grouping
Finding information in a reading
Writing a reflection
Choosing headings for paragraph
Classification

25. Tips for Reading
   
Remember to read all the questions at the beginning very carefully.
Memorize the Head words then go to the passage
Remember that the questions for certain task types follow the order of information in the reading passage. Again remember to read all the questions very carefully.
Cont’d

26. Put number in every passages(like-1,2,3,)
Put number in every passages(like-1,2,3,). Practice scanning for key words in the extracts or the reading passage that match the items.
You can also practices scanning for paraphrases of key words.
  Remember that in most tasks which involve writing words or numbers, e.g. Short-answer Questions, the answers have to be grammatically correct and spelt correctly Cont’d

27. In task types where the information is located in order in the text, remember you don't need to go back to the beginning of the text of each question.
Take care when you need to copy a word or words from the text onto your Answer Sheet. Copying incorrectly will lead to loss of marks.

28. Reading Tips to Improve Your Vocabulary
Construct vocabulary trees from short stories or articles you are reading.
Build mind maps based on the stories or articles you are reading.
Photocopy a page or an article and highlight all the words you do not understand. Look up those words and add them to your vocabulary diary.
When you come across a word you do not understand, first try to understand based on context.

30. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. – Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)

31. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler

32. Exercise