The document discusses tips for overcoming obstacles in reading and activities to enhance reading skills. It recommends making reading a regular part of life, surrounding yourself with books and other readers, and being determined to overcome obstacles. It also lists note-taking, using graphic organizers, and engaging in reading activities as ways to enhance selective reading skills. Additionally, it defines reading comprehension, discusses how it affects daily life and the learning process, and provides techniques like summarizing, building vocabulary, and using the S3QR method to better understand texts.

1. Valino, Alyssa Denise A.
Developmental Reading 1
April 17, 2013
Learning Task 4
1. Make your own list of tips in overcoming the obstacles in reading.
Some other tips in overcoming the obstacles in reading are the following:
a. Make reading a part of your life. Engage yourself to reading. Always think
about what books you think are good to read. Find the time to update your
reading.
b. Surround yourself with books. Buy books that really interest you. Buying the
books yourself somehow allows you to have the sense of responsibility within
yourself to read the book.
c. Surround yourself with reader, booklovers and bookworms. Having a lot of
friends who often reads will help pique someone’s reading interest because
latest books and authors often become a topic of conversation. A lot of times,
friends can influence someone’s view of a matter, like reading.
d. Take charge. Be determined and disciplined enough to help yourself
overcome the obstacles in reading.
2. Give at least 3 activities that can enhance the selective reading skills of your students.
Some of the activities that can enhance the selective reading skills of your
students are:
a. Note-taking. Taking down notes about the important information you need to
find will concentration on the important information.
b. Use graphic organizer to explain the content of the title.
c. Reading activities. Nothing will develop any skill in reading without reading.

2. Valino, Alyssa Denise A.
Developmental Reading 1
April 17, 2013
Learning Task 5
1. Define reading comprehension in your own words.
Reading Comprehension pertains to the understanding of the content/message of
the text. It is the construction of meaning from what is read.
2. How does reading comprehension affect your daily life?
Basically, reading comprehension allows you to live safely and productively. It
enables you to function as a normal member of society. Reading comprehension
in daily life involves a lot of things: the bills you have to pay, the notices you
have to address, the signs and labels you have to read, etc.
3. List down at least 3 techniques or strategies that will help to better understand the text
we read.
Summarize the idea or main point of the text.
Enhance vocabulary trough the help of the dictionary and other vocabulary
builders such as using contextual clues, synonyms and homonyms.
Use techniques in reading such as the S3QR (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and
Review)
4. How does reading comprehension affect the learning process?
Reading comprehension is essential in the learning process. In every subject, you
will find that you will have to read and understand the lessons. A higher level of
reading comprehension can help in constructing schemata, which will help in
constructing and relating information to another information in from a different
subject area.