The presentation by Ms. T. Kousalya focuses on reading comprehension, highlighting it as an active process essential for understanding written material. It discusses various factors that hinder comprehension, including decoding issues and lack of prior knowledge, and provides strategies for developing reading skills such as proper pronunciation and engaging methods in teaching. Essential skills for comprehension include decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and reasoning abilities.

1. PRESENTATION
Presented By
Ms. T. Kousalya
Arasan Ganesan College of Preceptors, Sivakasi.
Department of English.
Topic:
Reading Comprehension
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4. READING:
1. Important part.
2. Active process.
3. Pronunciation, stress, intonation,
uniform speed, proper voice
modulation.
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5. “ Reading
comprehension refers to
the ability to understand
the meaning of the
written material in a
variety of text formats.”
READING COMPREHENSION:

6. 1. Read the words first.
2. Understand the meaning.
3. Compare with previous knowledge.
4. Constructing the main ideas of the
text book.
5. Referred as “Situational model”.
(Kintsch & Rawson,
2005)

7. POOR READING COMPREHENSION:
1. Decoding.
2. Vocabulary knowledge.
3. Grammatical awareness.
4. Listening comprehension.
5. Lack of general knowledge.
6. Comprehension monitoring.
7. Working memory.
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8. FACTORS WHICH HINDER READING
COMPREHENSION:
1. Deficiency in decoding letters.
2. Lack of previous knowledge.
3. Minimum level of proficiency.
4. Poor reading skills.
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9. 5. Difficult in reading
material.
6. No involvement.
7. Lack of patience.
8. Books not written with simple
words, short sentence and lucid
style.
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10. DEVELOPING SKILL OF
COMPREHENSION:
1. Lower classes – flash &spelling cards.
2. Proper pronunciation.
3. Explaining new words.
4. Pictorial illustration.
5. Loud reading.
6. Silent reading.
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11. 7. Bulletin board.
8. Create facilitating
environment.
9. Dividing groups.
10. Pause at proper place.
11. Referring dictionary.
12. Using encyclopedia,
internet.
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12. HOW TO DEVELOP GOOD READING
SKILLS:
1. Give Reading practice from primary
education.
2. Read the words with understand the
related meaning.
3. Interest and confident.
4. Library in schools.
5. Without fear.

13. * While reading textbook.
* Use dictionary.
* Role of teachers.
* Patience and steadiness.
* Clarity.
IMPORTANT FEATURES:

14. ESSENTIAL SKILLS NEEDED FOR
READING COMPREHENSION:
• Decoding
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Sentence construction
• Cohesion
• Reasoning
• Background knowledge
• Working memory
• Attention
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