EN 2102: Advanced Reading Skills III
Recognition of different styles of writing:
descriptive, expository, narrative, argumentative
· Help students to
- Recognize the writer’s attitude and tone
- Identify figurative language and other elements of
narrative style (e.g. plot, character, and setting),
- How the writer tries to persuade or convince the
reader and how the writer uses reasons, examples etc. to explain something.
· Activities: Read
passages of different styles and answer questions based on them.
Reading and summarizing
· Focus: summarizing
is a productive skill, but to be able to write accurate summaries requires
accurate comprehension of the passage.
· Read each
paragraph of a text and summarize the main points in one or two sentences
· Join the sentences
with appropriate linking words or phrases to produce a coherent summary.
Creative reading: going beyond the
text
· This level of
reading will be possible only if the students know the literal meaning of the
text and have interpreted and evaluated the information; involves going beyond
the text to seek out or express new ideas, to gain additional insights.
· Activities:
Reading more on the topic and gathering information, writing responding to what
is read.
Intensive reading
· Read short
sections to understand or study information or language use in detail
· Activities:
comprehension questions at different levels. Activities on vocabulary,
grammatical and lexical cohesion
Integrating activities
Activities: Writing short stories based on news
items, Dramatizing a comic strip series
Read orally
· Help students to
read avoiding communication problems such as word recognition difficulties,
poor phrasing, and improper use of punctuation. There must be a genuine
audience, an opportunity to prepare, rehearse or practice.
· Types of
activities:
- Produce their own news broadcast including local
news, world news, sports, cinema, fashions, weather etc. and reading it.
- Reading a paragraph from a magazine, a poem,/story
