skills of english language

1. Read: (verb) /ri:d/:to look at
and understand the meaning
of written or printed words
or symbols.

2.  “A reader lives a thousand lives
before he dies , said Jojen . The man
who never reads lives only one.”
- George R.R.Martin.
 “To acquire the habit of reading is to
construct for yourself a refuge from
almost all the miseries of life.”
– W.Somerset Maugham.

3. Sub-skills of Reading and
Phonological Awareness.
Here, Phonology relates to the speech
sounds of a particular language.
 Reading Aloud.
Aloud here means in a voice that other
people can hear.
 Vocabulary.(w.r.t. Text books)

4. Important tips
 Roll your tongue for phoneme /r/
pronunciation.
 Phoneme : any one of the set of smallest
units of speech in a language that
distinguish one word from another.
 One vowel sound gives us one syllable.
 Syllable : any of the units into which a
word is divided containing a vowel sound
& usually one or more consonants.
 When there is a double letter it is split to
produce separate syllables. Eg. lit-tle.

5. SPEECH SOUNDS
TWO LIT-TLE KIT-TENS

6. Enhance Reading
.Alliteration
Tongue twisters are an important
tool to improve reading.
1.SOUND>2.SENSE>3.SPELLINGS
Order shall be followed
T.P.R –Total physical response
shall be there.

7. Blends, digraphs & split
digraphs?
 Consonant blends(also called as
consonant clusters) are groups of two
or three consonants in words that
makes a distinct consonant sound . Eg.
“bl” or “spl”.
 Consonant digraphs are groups with
combination of of two letters
representing one sound. Eg. “ph”, “qu”.
 When a digraph is split by a consonant
it becomes a split digraph. Eg. Wrote-
“oe” make one sound.

8. Reading for Comprehension
& Unseen Passages.
 Sub-Skills
1. Skimming and Scanning
2. Word Attack Skills
3. Vocabulary , Spellings &Phonology
(w.r.t. Textbooks)

9. LSRW.
 Five pillars of Reading: (i)Phonemic awareness
(ii)Phonics (iii) Fluency (iv)Vocabulary
(v)Comprehension
 Skimming :To read something quickly in order to
find a particular point or the main points.
 Scanning : To look at every part of something
carefully , especially because you are looking for a
particular thing.
 Word Attack Skills are the ability to convert graphic
symbols into intelligible language.
 It is also known as decoding skill.Connotation or
contextual meaning is allowed.

10. ACTIVITY

11. Strategies Posters
 Make connections ; What does that
remind you of ? How can you connect
this to your own life?
 THREE WAY CONNECT
 TEXT – SELF.
 TEXT - TEXT.
 TEXT-WORLD.
 ____ reminds me of a time when____.
 ____ is like ____ because ______ .

12. QUERIES AND DOUBTS
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