1. A.Dinesh
M.Phil English
The American College

2.  What is Reading?
 Why Reading is Important?
 Strategies For Readings?

3.  It is a Decoding Process
 Aim is to comprehend the meaning
 Through reading we can gain a lot
 Reading builds our vocabulary which leads to
comprehend the meaning easily

4. Internal factor:
Language proficiency
Motivation level
Accumulative reading ability
External factor :
Quality of reading environment
Textual characteristics, readability of
text.

5.  As a young learners we should read a lot for
which we should select appropriate text .
 During reading the meaning doesn’t go from
the page to the reader, instead it is a
complex negotiation between the text and
the reader.
 Reading leads to good writing
 Reading builds our confidence, language
proficiency, and content information.

6.  Narrow down your topic for better and
brighter reading
We should have reading readiness
Three reading strategies
1. Before Reading
2. During Reading
3. After Reading

7.  What to read?
 Try to guess what the author try to say by
giving a glance. Check the topic, Index,
Blurb, surveying picture, etcetera.
 Find is it relevant to your topic?
 Skimming and scanning are the key strategy
in pre reading.

8. 1. Ask your tutor for reading list
2. Use your textbook, you may find a
recommended list
3. Look up the topic in Encyclopedia
4. Web resource
5. Journal articles
 This brings answer for the question that is it
needed to read

9.  Find the focus of your reading
 Note taking is key strategy in reading, this
makes the reader active
 This is influenced by before reading
 Questioning, Predicting and visualizing are
the thing we have to do to obtain better
result
 Contextualize
 Use your voice while reading difficult words,
for recurrent usage of the term
 No fast or slow reading only end result count

10.  After completed reading this is the important
stage, we have to think about the text and
its implication.
 Try to have note when to begin your reading
next, because regular reading will be
effective.

11.  Lecture 5%
 Reading 10%
 Audio/visual 20%
 Demonstration 30%
 Discussion 50%
 Practice and doing 75%
 Teaching others 90%

12.  Guide
 Monitor
 Help and motivate
 Can divide students in to smaller groups
 provide feed back to students, try to be part
of them and kindle desire
All this points will ultimately leads to better
results in young learners reading.