The document discusses approaches to teaching reading from a Philippine perspective. It outlines four macro skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The goals of elementary and secondary education are to provide knowledge, develop skills, and promote learning experiences. English aims to develop competence in the four skills. Specific goals for teaching English include providing access to information and communicating fluently in oral and written forms. Methods for teaching reading discussed include PQRST, spider diagrams, SQ4R and PQ4R which involve strategies like previewing, questioning, reading, summarizing and testing comprehension.

1. Approaches to
Teaching
Reading:
A Philippine
Perspective

2. Four Macro skills
 LISTENING
SPEAKING
READING
WRITING

3. The goals of both ELEMENTARY
and SECONDARY Education
framework
 To provide the knowledge and
develop the skills
 To provide learning experiences
 To promote and intensify the
child’s knowledge
 To promote work experiences

4. Subject Nomenclature
and Description for
English*English as a subject is concerned with
developing competence in listening, speaking,
reading and writing.
 Listening is an information-processing act.
 Speaking – is language expressions and
grammatical structures
 Reading is getting meaning from the printed
page
 Writing is a writing readiness skills, guided
writing, and creative writing

5. Goals of English in
Elementary level
• to provide access to varied
information and creatively use
them in spoken and written
forms.
• To communicate fluently and
accurately orally and in writing.

6. Goals in Teaching
English Language
The four communicative
areas:
1.Linguistic competence
2.Sociolinguistic
competence

7. Lists of the Goals of
Language teaching• Self development
• A method of training new cognitive
processes
• A way in to the mother-tongue
• An entrée to another culture
• A form of religious observance
• A means of communicating with
those who speak another language
• The promotion of intercultural
understanding and peace

8. Goals of Teaching
Reading• Developing students awareness of the reading
process and reading strategies
• Allowing students to practice the full repertoire of
reading strategies
• Working with reading tasks in class
• Practice reading strategies in class and outside of
class in the students reading assignments
• Encouraging students to evaluate their
comprehension and self report their use of
strategies
• Encouraging the development of reading skills

9. Study Skills and
Comprehension Skills in
Reading1. PQRST methods- focus on studying and
prioritizing the information
P – preview (looking at the topic)
Q- question (formulating queries that may
be answered)
R- read (reading through reading
materials)
S- summary (allows individual students to
put together information)
T- test (answering the Question set for in

10. 2. Spider diagram- determine theme
relatives to the other concepts
3. SQ4R method
S- survey (general idea of the
structure or the general
understanding)
Q- Question ( asking oneself
questions)
R- read ( reading carefully)
Write (writing down the answers to
the questions)

11. Recite ( recalling main headings
and ideas)
Review ( figuring out what one
knows and what one needs to
concentrate on)
4. PQ4R method
P- preview (surveying the chapter
to determine the general topics)
Q-question ( making questions
about the section)
READ, REFLECT, RECITE, REVIEW