This document discusses reading and reflecting on texts. It provides guidance on activities to improve reading skills such as individual and group reading, discussion, summarization, and relating texts to personal experiences. Students are instructed to write reviews of 3 books from different genres and present research findings from reference books in groups. Other activities include publishing a class magazine, writing articles, and creating picture stories. The document emphasizes developing meta-cognitive awareness of reading strategies and encourages reflection on ideas from texts. It evaluates students based on assignments including reviews, presentations, and cooperation within reading groups.

1. EPC 1
READING & REFLECTING ON
TEXTS
Dr. S. Prakash
Principal
Thiagarajar College of Preceptors
Madurai

2. Reading
 Understanding
 Reading is a complex “cognitive
process” of decoding symbols in order to
construct or derive meaning . Reading
is a means of language acquisition,
communication and of sharing
information and ideas.
 Reading books improve vocabulary.
Books improve our communication
skills.
 Learning to read is a sequential
process; each new skill builds on the
mastery of previously learned skills.
 The ability to read is a vital skill in
being able to function in today’s society.

3. Readingand
Reflection
 It is meant to encourage students to
reflect meta cognitively on what they
have read. It allow the students to
begin to internalize the information by
summarizing it in their own.
 Reflection on a book- what you think
about a book- expression of ideas and
perceiving the ideas.
 Examples – reflection of sound ,light
and water waves
 Add your thoughts and analysis to
what you have understand and
experienced
 Illustrate your ideas and possible
practice in future.

4. How to writea
record
 Select &Collect the basic information –
Title Author, year, Publisher, editor,
Type, Group of Readers, Wrapper
design and quality of paper.
 Summary – key points.
 My views- lang., content, theme,
organisation, merit and demerit of the
concept.
 Suggestion
 Educational implication
 Discussion
 My meta cognitive awareness- strategy
to improve my next reading.
 Learning outcomes /conclusion

5. Book review
 3 books
 Story book or novel.- 50 pages to 100
pages
 Books related to Education- Check the
Reference or library.
 General books – self motivational books
and your favorite author Book.
 Audio review.
 Read& Criticize - Editorial articles of
News paper or Magazine.

6. Activities
 Individual reading
 Group Reading or discussion
 Retelling- in one’s own words/ from
different points of view (taking turns in
a smaller group)
 Narrating /describing a related account
from one’s life experience.
 Discussion of characters and situations.
 Writing based on the text.
 Eg. summary of a scene, extrapolation
of story,converting a situation in to a
dialogue etc.
 Expected output: keeping a record.

7. Specialactivity
 Engaging with subject related ref. book
 The student teacher should work in
groups divided according to their subjects
with in these groups, pairs of student
teachers would make choice of a specific
topic in their specfic subject area which
they could research from a set of available
reference books.
 1. Select the topic and articulate some
guiding question
 2.Locate relevant books in the Library
 3.Scan,skim and extract relevant
information.
 4 Planning a presentation- with display or
oral components.
 Make presentation to the subject group
and fielding questions
 Expected output: PPt presentation.

8. Specialactivity
 Publish the journal of their own
 Ingenious report- expression of opinion
by prominent men or women given in
speeches or interviews.
 An article on topic of local interest
written after sufficient search of
matters relevant to them.
 Prepare a magazine of all these
collection of articles
 Expected output: Magazine

9. Evaluation
 Magazine-6 marks
 Ppt presentation- subject book-6 marks
 Article writing- 6 marks
 Review on novel – 6 marks
 Review on Educational books (favorite
author)- 6 marks.
 Set readers club- Read aloud, Talk
about what you read- 4 marks
 Create picture story writing-6 marks
 10 marks-
Relevance,cooperation,submission,team
work.

10. Thankyou