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Focus on reading
We
have based the structure of this section on the following focus.
Why
do we read?
We read for: - Survival
- Study
- Work
- Pleasure
What
do we read? - For
survival-forms, official notices, bills, receipts, labels, directions, time tables,
place names, street signs etc.
- For
study-dictionaries, textbooks, indexes, glossaries, bibliographies, catalogues
etc.
- For
work-reports, articles, catalogues, workshop manuals, notice boards, minutes of
meetings, business letters etc.
- For
pleasure-magazines and all genres of fiction.
The
section aims at developing the following reading skills: - Recognising
words and phrases in English script.
- Using
one's knowledge of the outside world to make predictions about and interpret a
text.
- Retrieving
information stated in a passage.
- Distinguishing
the main ideas from subsidiary information.
- Deducing
the meaning and use of unknown words; ignoring unknown words/phrases that are
redundant i.e. that contribute nothing to interpretation.
- Understanding
the meaning and implications of grammatical structures e.g. cause, result, purpose,
reference in time etc.
- Recognising
discourse markers: e.g. therefore-conclusion, however-contrast, that is-paraphrase
etc.
- Recognising
the function of sentences-even when not introduced by discourse markers.
- Understanding
relations within the sentence and the text.
- Extracting
specific information for summary or note making.
- Skimming
to obtain the gist, and recognise the organisation of ideas within the text.
- Understanding
implied information and attitudes.
- Knowing
how to use a table of contents, an index, etc.
- Understanding
layout, use of headings, etc.
Task
types used to develop reading skills: -
Sorting words into lexical sets
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Matching questions to answers
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Matching jumbled sentence halves
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Arranging jumbled sentences with logical cohesion
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Completing sentences
- Multiple
choice
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Gap-fill exercises
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Finding sentences and words that indicate the meaning
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Sorting information as true or false
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Completing a table or chart of information
- Cloze
passages
How
can the teacher help? - Provide
more background information
-
Pre-teach key words the day before
- Divide
text into short chunks
- Signpost
questions for main points
- Add
discourse markers where helpful
- Ask
easy questions
- Paraphrase
difficult ideas
- Set
easy tasks
- Praise
and encourage
The
reading comprehension practice sheets for classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 provide practice
in using the comprehension strategies with both fiction and non-fiction texts.
This means that they have been modified to reduce the amount of text read before
answering a question, the concept load of the text, or the sophistication of vocabulary.
The
passages for classes 6-8 have been written with a view to elicit responses to
various types of questions that attempt to include the important facets of reading-skimming,
scanning, inference, analysis and extrapolation. The
material provided for classes 9-12 strictly adhere to norms set by the CBSE, thus
providing excellent practice material for the children, priming them to face the
Board examinations. The marking scheme for each passage also adheres to the CBSE
marking pattern, thus giving the young learner an opportunity to familiarise himself
with the types of passages and questions he will face in those crucial three hours
of examination. All
the passages, at all levels aim to help the student gear himself towards comprehending
the language in various situations and preparing him to tackle global English,
for optimum communication.
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Worksheets for Classrooms (PDF
version) |
03.10.2011 |
Worksheet
for each class is provided below. These Worksheets
are replaced by new ones every week. Select your class/classes from the list.
For your convenience we are providing these Worksheets
in the Microsoft Word version also. We recommend you use the PDF version, as errors
in printing do not occur in these.
You will be able to download the PDF
files, but to open these files you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Please
note, downloading PDF files takes some time.
You can download Acrobat
Reader from this section.
To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, click the
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Class
1
Class
7
Class 2
Class 8
Class
3
Class
9
Class 4
Class 10
Class 5
Class 11
Class 6
Class
12
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Reading Comprehension for Classrooms
(Microsoft
Word version) |
03.10.2011
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Class
1
Class 7
Class
2
Class 8
Class 3
Class 9
Class 4
Class 10
Class 5
Class 11
Class 6
Class 12
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