This document discusses reading skills and strategies for teaching reading. It outlines principles for teaching reading such as making texts accessible to students. It also describes skills needed for reading like understanding meanings and making inferences. Pre-reading, while reading, and post-reading activities are discussed to involve students in reading, including predicting themes, skimming, scanning, gap filling exercises, and role plays.

1. Worksheets
By:
For: Metric
Dept. Of English Language & Literature
University of the Punjab

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CONTENTS
R E A D I N G S K I L L S
N A T U R E O F T E X T
P R I N C I P L E S F O R T E A C H I M G R E A D I N G
S K I L L S N E E D E D I N R E A D I N G
S T R A T E G I E S T O I N V O L V E S T U D E N T S I N
R E A D I N G
P R E R E A D I N G A C T I V I T I E S
W H I L E R E A D I N G A C T I V I T I E S
P O S T R E A D I N G A C T I V I T I E S

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eading skill is a very important factor responsible for increasing the ability to learn and master
a large volume of information. Educational researchers have found that there is a strong
correlation between reading and academic successi
. Good reader can understand the individual
sentences and the organizational structure of a piece of writing. They can comprehend ideas,
follow arguments and detect implications. They know most of the words in the text already they
can also determine the meanings of the unfamiliar words from the context
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A clear purpose in reading
Concentration on the important bits skips the insignificant
Skimming and scanning
Different strategies for different reading tasks
Stress and intonation
Guess the meaning of words from context

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If you encounter a man of rare
intellect, you should ask him what
books he reads…
(R.W.EMERSON)

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Use of authentic materials
Use of simulated texts for beginners
to acquire necessary receptive skills
Use of authentic materials I. e newspapers as much
as the coverage allows in order to enhance the
quality of learning.
The greater the variety of materials, the greater the
quality of learning.

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Principles For Teaching
“Reading”
The text and task should be accessible to the
student.
Task should be designed to encourage reading
rather than test the student understanding of
trivial details.
The focus of the task should be reading skills
and strategies rather than reading
comprehension.
Teachers should encourage the students to read
on their own, so that they may eventually
become independent readers.

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Skills needed in reading
 Recognizing the script of
language
 Understanding the information
 Understanding the conceptual
meanings
 Deducing the meaning of
unfamiliar lexical items
 Recognizing indicators in
discourse
 Making inferences

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The three strategies are applied before, during and after reading the text
with the purpose to involve students in reading. They are named as:
1.Pre reading activities
a. Predictingii
the theme of the text through title
b. Predicting through pictures
2.While reading activities
a. Skimming
b. Scanning
3.Post reading activities
a. Gap filling
b. Role play

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Through the title of
the text, picture or a word which can
give cultural background of the text,
student’s mind can be neared1 to the
theme which involves the students in
reading. They get curiousiii to know the
whole story.
1. To make them close to the central idea of the text.

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FIRST AID
Activity: what does the title suggest the lesson is
all about?
TEXT
First aid means responding to emergency situations.
Accidents2 always happen unexpectedly. But a life can
be saved by having a basic knowledge of what to doing
emergency and knowing proper first aid procedures.
Basic training in first aid skills should be taught in
schools3.
2 If not so severe and can be recovered through first aid. Otherwise prefer to go to hospitals.
3 Through lessons and general discussions.

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The pictures on the title page of the lessons or in the text can also involve the students in
reading.
Activity
What does the picture suggest about the title of the text?

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Text
gypt is one of the most fertileiv
areas of Africa and Mediterranean Sea. Since it
was too fertile people came to live in Egypt earlier than in most places, probably
around 40,000 years ago. It has a rich
culture. Travelers from all around the
world like to visit Egypt. It is famous
for Pyramids. Egypt is also known for
its ancient histories. Prophet Joseph4
a.
s had ruled in the Egypt. He was
thrown into a well by his step brothers.
A traveler of Egypt coincidently came
to fetch the water from the well. There he found The Prophet Josephv
and took him
out of the well. And find in the little boy to be extremely beautiful, thought to sell5
him in Egypt.
4 The son of Prophet Jacob
5 There was custom of slavery in those days. And individuals were sold as slaves
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2.
While reading activities help in recognizing the patterns of text through skimming,
making inferences, deducing meanings from the context. Among while reading
activities some involve are skimming, scanning etc.
2.1 Skimmingvi
means reading quickly to get
the gist or the main idea of the text. Students can be asked general questions, or to
put the title on the text
Activity:
Suggest the title of the text
______________________________________________________
Books are a source of comfort for us. They are
safe shelter. Throughout human history man has
found peace in the written work. Books are
bridges through their pages we make our contact
with society. Those who read more are better
prepared to face the world than those who do not
read.

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2.2
Scanning means to locate specific
information. The key point in
scanning is that the reader has
something in his mind and he or she
should ignore the irrelevant parts
when reading. Pictures, drawings
tables etc. are the devices of scanning.
Through the text students choose
specific information and incorporate
in the table or charts.
Activity: Fill in the table while reading the text.
Text
At 9:30 am on the morning of April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was shaken
by a terrible Earth Quake. Hundreds of buildings were destroyed and causalities
caused were 250,000.
Another earthquake shook San Francisco on October17th, 1989. 100
people were killed at 5:13 am. a wide busy bridge was destroyed.
Many people were killed in the cars but a few luckily were not hurt.
Table
TIME DATE LOCATION NUMBER OF
PEOPLE
KILLED
DAMAGE
Earthquake
in 1986
Earthquake
in 1906

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ome strategies if employed at the end of the text reading,
keep the students still involved in the lesson. Among
such activities some are:
3.1 Gap Filling
3.2 Role Play
Post readingvii tasks provide students with
the opportunity to relate what they have read
to what they already know. Gap fillingsviii role
plays can involve the students. They can also
be assessment of the students for what they
have read.
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3.1
Activity: Students are supposed to complete the sentences by filling in the
blanks
Once Caliph sitting in the mosque of the Holy Prophet, was busy in the affairs
of the _________________Two young men, holding a strong sturdy countryman,
___________________before him. They complained ______________that the person had
murdered their old father. They _____________________ by punishing the
________________________for his crime.
Text
Once Caliph ix sitting in the
mosque of the Holy prophet
was busy in the affairs of the
state. Two young men, holding
a strong sturdy countryman,
appeared before him. They
complained to Hazrat Umar
that the person had murdered
their old father. They
demanded justice by punishing
the murderer for his crime.

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3.2
In role plays students are to enact on a script.
Activity
Perform6 a dialogue between a salesmanx and a
customer at a market.Try to think in second language
Act out7 the conversation between a
sales man and a customer at the clothes’
shop.
TryCramming is not allowed
6 Enact

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i. If reading skill is not developed academic success cannot be achieved.
ii. Anticipating
iii . anxious
iv Where vegetation can be found
v. Son of Abraham
vi . To read for the main idea only
vii . After reading
viii. Fill in the blanks
ix Hazrat Umar (R.A)
x . servant at a shope to deal with the customers