The document discusses factors that influence reading ability such as intelligence, motivation, language facility, and auditory/visual discrimination. It also discusses reading problems like reading deficiency. The group members are listed as Shukria, Aatika, Shoaib, Farhat, and Waqas. The document proposes activities to improve reading like pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading activities. These include schema building, vocabulary games, assigning interesting books for students to read and summarize.

2. Group Members
 Shukria Roll # 912
 Aatika Naeem Roll # 913
 Shoaib Ahmed Roll # 914
 Farhat Munir Roll # 915
 Waqas Ahmed Chatta Roll # 916

5. Waqas Ahmed Chatta

8. Factors
Influencing
Acquisition
of Reading
Ability
Intelligence
Motivation
Language
Facility
Interest
Auditory
Discrimination
Visual
Discrimination
Motor-Ocular
Discrimination Attitude of/toward
1. Parents
2. Siblings
3. Teachers
4. Peers
Home
Background
Teaching Strategies
1. Vocabulary
2. Comprehension
3. Literary
Appreciation
4. Study Skills
Factors Influencing Reading Ability

9. Reading Problems
Reading Deficiency
Reading Retardation
Reading Disability
Underachiever in Reading
Dyslexia
Primary Reading Retardation
Secondary Reading Retardation

10. Aatika Naeem

15. Shoaib Ahmed

18. Farhat Munir

19. Some teachers complain that most students are not able to
understand what they read.
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20. Pre-reading activities
 Schema building
 Skimming
 Identifying genre
 Learning vocabulary

21. Activities while reading
 Keeping questions in mind
 Taking notes
 Underlining
 Monitoring comprehension
 Developing fluency

22. Post-reading activities
 Comprehension
 Critical analysis and
evaluation
 Summarizing
 Task-based output

23. Activity 1: Write and draw on
Writing and drawing help the students to become a better
reader. Some students love to be creative when it comes to
drawing, and illustrations add visual imagery to stories.
Activity 2: Attract students attention by their interests.
Let the students read books that have famous cartoon
characters in it or let them read about the video games the
play.
Vocabulary games
Playing this kind of games help students to learn new word
which will improve their reading skills.

24. Activity 4:
Assign a small, interesting book to students every
day/week/month, and the students get to choose their
book individually. At the end of the time chosen by you
AND the students, the students tell their classmates the
summary of the story/book. You should emphasis to
the students not to take this as a Homework, but to
make it interesting to them.

25. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 Brown, H. Douglas. ( 1994). Teaching by
Principles: An Approach to Language Pedagogy.
2nd ed. New Jersey, USA: Prentice Hall.
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 Macceca, S. (2007). Reading Stategies for
Science. Huntington Beach, USA: Shell
Education.

26. Any Question