Prelim - Developmental Reading 1
Prelim - Developmental Reading 1
Prelim - Developmental Reading 1
V. Course Objective
1. Identify the topic and purpose of a reading sample
2. Distinguish between main ideas and supporting details
3. Locate specific information
Distinguish between stated and implied ideas; make inferences
4. Draw conclusions and predict outcomes
5. Recognize the structure and organization of paragraphs
6. Use strategies to think critically about reading
7. Use various reading aids such as the dictionary
8. Use appropriate technology to enhance reading comprehension, reading speed,
and vocabulary development
9. Demonstrate techniques for improving vocabulary such as using contextual
clues, word parts, and other reading devices
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INSTRUCTION:
You must participate actively during class discussions/recitations.
You must pass all the other requirements of the course.
Make sure to incur a passing mark in every quizzes set by the teacher
OVERVIEW:
This course is designed to help students master the reading, reasoning, vocabulary, and computer
skills, which will enable them to succeed in college level courses using college level texts.
OBJECTIVES:
1. Improved impression about reading
2. Ability to discuss reading in positive ways
3. Acquired motivation to improve reading skills
4. Acquired appreciation of the wondrous origin of reading
5. Ability to highlight the epic periods that gave us reading today
6. Experience the broader aspect of reading body language
7. Acquaintance with reading in terms of its physiology or internal process in the human
organism
8. Retention of scientific terms related to the physiology of reading
9. Appreciation of the wondrous process of reading
KEYWORDS:
Reading - Reading is a multifaceted process involving word recognition,
comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Learn how readers integrate these facets to
make meaning from print.
Body Language - the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or
unconscious gestures and movements.
Cuneiform - denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient
writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on
clay tablets.
Physiological - relating to the branch of biology that deals with the normal functions
of living organisms and their parts.
Regression - a return to a former or less developed state.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Have you stopped to reflect on the significance of reading, an activity which you have
been doing since your elementary grades until your college life today? Do you think of it
simply as a tool for studies? That it is perhaps burdensome and it would be a relief to set
aside? Or it's a work activity, cutting time for more leisurely activities like games, watching
television or listening to music?
Before answering these questions, let's see how people of great minds think of
reading. Here are some of their thoughts on reading:
“Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide intellectual and
emotional growth” (Caroll Gray)
After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless." (Chinese proverb)
“Once you learn to read you will be forever free. (Frederick Douglass)
“The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of youth even in old age.” (Isaac d'isrelli)
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” (Elizabeth
Hardwick).
“I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and books."
(Thomas a Kempis)
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading
them. (Ray Bradbury)
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations.”
(Henry David Thoreau).
ACTIVITY 1
Learning from famous men and women, you may answer the following questions.
Check your answer and explain your choice.
YES NO
3. For men and women of great minds, they are avoided and
set aside.
ACTIVITY 2
Through informal sharing of opinion, give brief reasons why:
ACTIVITY 3
Create two separate web graphs/figures to show the benefits provided by (a) reading
and (b) books.
ACTIVITY 4
Write a resolution (something you wish to do) drawn from your recent discovery
about reading and books.
REFERENCE
Developmental Reading 1; Aida V., Rogelio DS; Lorimar L. Delos Santos
DISCUSSION 2
THE HISTORY OF READING
As a modern man you are surrounded by reading materials from mass media
(such as newspapers, magazines, advertising, etc.) as well as other forms of modern
communication including the mobile phone and the Internet. But have you ever
wondered how reading originated? Everything in the universe including man has a
beginning and so let's cull on what history can tell us about reading.
We have evidence of this in the Old Stone Age rock painting and in the
cuneiform or picture writing. From these we have knowledge of the earliest human
act of picture writing and reading.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
PLEASE WATCH!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=COxB_GvdzWI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=dT4FwLaYD6k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform 1
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
Even during our modern days, we too can "read” nonverbal or the silent
language system as was done by primitive man. Researchers estimate that
conveying messages through body language (finger symbols, gestures, postures,
etc.) expresses 50 percent of our meanings. Needless to say, you can improve your
communication skills by developing awareness of silent language. (Video yourself for
each activity)
1. For learning and fun, see how the class can "read” these messages, as individual
students are assigned to communicate them using grunts, sign language or gestures
(but no words):
3. Let the class judge how well you say the following with body language.
Yoo-hoo!
Help me!
This is my affair.
How happy!
ACTING 15 points
= 60points
ASSIGNMENT
Research and submit brief descriptions of (a) Old stone Age Rock painting ()
Cuneiform writing (6) Egyptian hyroglypics (c) Greek alphabet (d) Roman alphabet
SUMMARY
REFERENCE
Developmental Reading 1; Aida V., Rogelio DS; Lorimar L. Delos Santos
DISCUSSION 3
READING AS A PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS
Let's prepare for learning
Have you ever wondered about the process on how reading is done by man?
How come reading triggers different reactions on the human organism? How can we
avoid straining ourselves when reading? Such questions can be answered by
understanding the physiology in the human activity of reading.
2. In the physiological process, the most basic step is for the eyes to see,
identify, and recognize the printed word or images (illustration, diagram,
picture).
3. The light patterns from the printed symbols hit the foveal areas or closely
packed sensory cells of the retina.
6. The stage of reading revolves around the ability to identify and recognize
words which are the smallest unit of visual identification and meaningful
recognition. But the act of reading does not take place if the letters are
perceived in isolation.
7. Finally, using the currents that travel to the mid-brain, the cerebral cortex
interprets the symbols (with the help of traces of the memory's store of past
experiences, also by associations that enable the reader to perceive meaning
of the word).
8. Studies show eye movement in reading with the eye perceiving and
pausing on the printed material horizontally from left to right and top-to-bottom
( for the westerner) or right to left and bottom-to-top (for Asians such as the
Chinese).
9. Scientific experiments have also shown that there are several eye
movements:
(a) fixation or the eyes stopping or getting fixated on the word or words.
The duration of fixation is the length of time the eyes has to pause. More
readers take four eye pauses per second, while poor readers need more
time to pause in order to see with accuracy.
(b) inter-fixation or the eyes moving from stopping point to the other
(horizontally from left to right, up coming down under).
(C) return sweeps with the eyes swinging back from the end line to the
beginning of the next line.
(d) Short quick hop and jump movements called saccades, done especially
by literate people, to move ahead on a line of print.
To reflect, one reads ideas not words. The habit of reading decreases of word
deciphering, resulting in an ease in perceiving meaning, relationship and messages
of the printed material.
ACTIVITY 1
To go back to the questions posed at the beginning of this lesson, formulate
and share your answers to these questions:
You may find help for your answer from this quotation:
"A bit of light comes into the eye, an electric impulse flits through the brain, and we
"see.” Science doesn't really know what light is or what the mind is, but much is now
known about the miracle of seeing." - Wolfgang Langewiesche
Your answer:
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2. Is physical seeing much like a photographic/camera picture-taking?
Your answer:
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Hint: No continued reading for long hours (not more than two hours is
recommended), also adequate and proper lighting (left-to-right of the eyes for the
source of light), reading in a quiet/cool environment, no reading in a moving vehicle,
etc.
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ACTIVITY 2
Prepare a chart illustrating the physiological process in reading.
ASSIGNMENT
Is the function of living organisms and their parts, and the physical and chemical
factors and processes involved. What is reading as a physiological process? It is the
thinking and alertness of the brain that is used to process the words that are on a
page or screen when you read.
REFERENCE