Developmental Reading

1. DEVELOPMENTAL READING
 Readiness
 Beginning Reading
 Rapid Growth
 Refinement

3. Nursery,
Kinder-
garten
Grades 1 -2
Grades 3 -4
Grades 6 –
HS and
College.

4. Developmental Reading
Readiness Beginning Reading Rapid growth Refinement

5. RAPID GROWTH
• From “learning to read” to “Reading to learn”
• Mastered the techniques of reading
• Prior knowledge
• A learner learns new ideas, given
new knowledge and experiences
new feelings.

6. RAPID GROWTH
• Enriching vocabulary
• Developing Comprehension
• Encourages free reading
• Applying skimming and scanning
techniques
• Introducing the use of dictionary

7. Enriching Vocabulary:
•Word Wall
•Semantic Mapping
•Playing Word Game

8. Developing Comprehension
5 Strategies to Improve Reading
Comprehension
1. Have them read aloud.
2. Provide books at the right level.
3. Reread to build fluency
4. Supplement their class reading.
5. Talk about what they are reading.

9. Encourages free reading
• Guided Self-Selected Reading
• Reading for enjoyment
• Reading for pleasure and interest will help
readers to develop reading skills and will
give them opportunity to practice these
skills in meaningful ways.

10. Applying Skimming and
Scanning
is the process of rapidly
reading text to obtain the main idea of the
information presented without necessarily
reading every word.
is the processing of rapidly
searching for specific information within
the texts.

11. Introducing the use of
dictionary
• to look up the meaning of a word.
• to check the spelling of a word.
• give other information about words, such as word
type and word origin.
• to understand synonyms and antonyms of words
• Organized alphabetically.
• guide word at the top page
• They may need to scan several pages of the
dictionary
How to use a Dictionary

12. Thank you!