Assignment submitted by students of 5EEE of batch 2012-16,Amity University. Members: Saket Kumar - A2324612069 Praveen Kumar SIngh - A2324612047 E. Chandan - A2324612045

1. SUBMITTED BY:
E.CHANDAN (A2324612045)
PRAVEEN SINGH (A2324612047)
SAKET KUMAR (A2324612069)
(5EEE)

2. OUTLINE:
DEFINITION
READING SKILLS
SQ3R
SQ4R
PARAPHRASING
SUMMARISING
PRECIS WRITING
LISTENING COMPREHENSION

3. WHAT IS COMPREHENSION SKILL?
Comprehension skills includes the different parameters
for understanding a comprehension. Basic comprehension
includes:
1. Reading skill
SQ3R
SQ4R
1. Listening skill
2. Précis writing
3. Summarising and paraphrasing.

4. SQ3R:
• It is a way to read academic material such as textbooks,
articles, research studies or manuals that can increase your
comprehension of what you are reading and improve your
ability to recall it.
•With the SQ3R method, your active involvement in the
reading process is required – in fact, it is demanded!

5. 1.SURVEY
1.Skim the following
• The title of the chapter
• The introduction
• The table of contents and any illustrations
• Charts or graphs and the summary paragraph.
2.Note any unknown vocabulary and find a definition.
3.Skim the section headings and the first sentences of each paragraph to
find the main points that will be developed.

6. 2.QUESTION
Turn the first heading, or the first sentence of the first
paragraph, into a question.
• Arouse curiosity.
• Provides active involvement.
Turning a heading into a question can be done instantly upon
reading the heading, but it demands a conscious effort on
your part to make this a query for which you must read to
find the answer.

7. 3.READ
Read to answer that question, i.e., to the end of the first
headed section.
• Underline only key words,never whole paragraphs.
• Use a dictionary if necessary to look up unfamiliar
vocabulary.
The reader should definitely have in mind what he wants
to learn as he reads each section and not just passively
read it line by line.

8. 4.RECITE
This part is concerned with learning the answer of our
question from the comprehension.
• Having read the first section, look away from the book and
try briefly to recite in your own words the answer to your
question.
• An excellent way to do this reciting from memory is to jot
down cue phrases in outline form on a sheet of paper.
• Make these notes very brief!

9. 5.REVIEW
When the comprehension has thus been completely
read, look over your notes to get a bird’s-eye view of
the points and their relationship to one another.
• Check your memory by reciting the major points under each
heading and the critical points under each major point.
• You can do this by covering up the notes and trying to recall
the information.

10. sq4r
• It is one more way of reading comprehensions which includes an extra
RECORD apart from SQ3R.
1. SURVEY
2. QUESTION
3. READ
4. RECORD
5. RECITE
6. REVIEW
RECORD involves jotting down the main points from the
comprehension and keeping a record of it for future references.

11. PARAPHRASING
It is a way of writing our own ideas which we derived
from the comprehension.
• It includes:
1.Notemaking from readings and lectures.
2.Integrating evidence/sources in essays, journals, research
reports.
3.Explaining information in tables, charts and diagrams.
It is mostly used for shorter texts.

12. SUMMARISING
Summarising is a spoken or written account of an event,
text, section of text, or visual, in which the main idea is
given, but details, examples and formalities are left out.
It includes:
1.Notetaking in lectures and while reading.
2.Writing an abstract/synopsis.
3.Writing annotated bibliographies.
It is often used for long comprehensions.

13. The Précis writing
A précis is a clear
concise, orderly
summary of the
contents of a
piece of writing.
Places where a précis could be
used include:
To shorten or summarize:
1. Newspaper articles
2. Journals
3. Conversations
4. Business letters

14. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
• Listening is the most common communicative activity in daily life:
“we can expect to listen twice as much as we speak, four times more
than we read, and five times more than we write.”
It includes:
* Speech perception
* Word recognition
* Sentence processing
* Constructing the literal meaning
* Holding the information in short-term memory
* Recognizing cohesive devices in discourse

15. THANK YOU!