Reading Skills - Teaching and Assessment

Reading Skills - Teaching and Assessment

• Reading involves interpreting something and recognizing written words/symbols
• Reading skills enable understanding written text and extracting the message within
• Reading skills include skimming, scanning, intensive, and extensive reading

Skimming

• Quick reading method
• Aims to grasp overall meaning and author's intent, not specific details.
• More complex than scanning; requires organizing and recalling information.

Scanning

• Quick reading to find specific information.
• Involves swift eye movements.
• Used when locating a particular piece of information.

Intensive Reading

• Sometimes called "narrow reading".
• Involves reading one author or multiple texts on the same subject.

Extensive Reading

• Done to gain a general understanding of the text, not specific details.
• Aims to understand the main ideas, not specific information.

Purposes of Reading

• Career advancement
• Language acquisition
• Vocabulary development
• Stimulating discussion

Teaching Methodology Stages

• Structured approach to teaching reading
• Divided into pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading stages.
• Each stage has specific activities.

Pre-Reading

• Activates prior knowledge to create a schema for the upcoming selection.
• Sample activities include:
• Critical vocabulary (unfamiliar words)
• Directed Reading Activity (comprehension strategy focusing on questions, predictions, and confirmation)
• Anticipation Guide (strategy to activate prior knowledge and build curiosity)

During Reading

• Reading strategies and activities during the reading process.
• Sample activities include:
• Page encounter
• Reading interface
• Visualizing highlights

Post-Reading

• Reading activity done after the selection is read
• Activities to assess comprehension level
• Sample activities include:
• Dimensional questions (literal, inferential, critical evaluation, integration)
• Graphic organizers (illustrations for capturing story/competency understanding)

The Concept of Assessment

• Assessment is a process to gather information about student learning.
• Used to improve teaching and learning
• It allows students to check their understanding and monitors progress.

Purposes of Assessment in Reading

• Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching practices.
• Track student progress.
• Diagnose strengths and weaknesses.

Types of Reading Assessments

• In TeachThought, there are six types of assessment
• Types include: Diagnostic, formative, summative, norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, interim/benchmark, and informal reading inventory (IRI)

Types of Reading Assessment (details)

• Diagnostic: Pre-assessment to evaluate student strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills.
• Formative: Monitors and checks students' performance during instruction.
• Summative: Measures students' achievement at the end of instruction
• Criterion-referenced: Measures student performance against specific objectives/goal
• Benchmark: Assesses student performance at set intervals.

Reading Assessment Activities

• Phonological Awareness: Emphasizes the crucial role of phonological awareness in reading and spelling success, and the relationship between reading and spelling success.
• Activities can involve exercising vocal cords, identifying names, building acronyms.
• Comprehension: Understanding and interpretation of what is read.
• Activities include: caricature analysis, interpreting graphs, problem-solution analysis, symbol translation, and news item analysis.
• Fluency: Reading speed, accuracy, and proper expression.
• Activities include "last word is mine", free talk, compensatory strategies, mini-debate, and phone/messenger conversations.