EAAP

Reading – complex process of decoding symbols to derive meaning

- It means for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information or ideas
- Complex interaction between the readers and the text shaped by prior knowledge, experiences and
language community
Language acquisition – familiar words
Purpose of Reading
1. To scan specific information – looking /scanning for specific info
2. To skim to get an overview - overview can found on the last page of the book, the abstract
3. To relate new content – relate pass learnings to new ideas, (natutunan before vs natutunan now)
4. To write something – to look for the evidences infos for the summary
5. To critique an argument – to evaluate, to validate your stand if it is right, criticizing is different from
judging
6. To learn something – new info new learnings
7. For general understanding- in general
Reading Strategies
Before Reading
 Establish your purpose for reading (ask yourself why will you read this article)
 Speculate about authors purpose for writing (speculate- ask yourself why did the author write this
article, make a hypothesis or make a guess)
 Review what you already know and want to learn about the topic (review your prior knowledge,
know what you want to learn)
 Preview the text to get an overview of its structure (look the intro, look for abstract or the summary
of the entire text)
 Predict the content of the text and pose question about it (guide question can help you to understand
and grasp)
 Note any discussion questions that have been provided (jut down notes – strategy in reading)
During Reading
 Annotate and mark sections of the text (highlight the words, phrases and ideas)
 Check your predictions and find answers to posed question (if alam mong alam mong may
sasagutan mas babasahin mo ito ng mabuti)
 Use headings and transition words (conjunction words – enhance the idea that is presented in article)
 Create vocabulary list of unfamiliar words to define later (take down yung mga context na walang
clues, mark your unfamiliar words)
 Try to infer unfamiliar words meanings (look for others word na magdidrect sayo to understand
your unfamiliar words)
 Connect the text to what you already know about the topic (new learnings vs before, mas malim na
words)
 Take breaks (paghiwahiwalayin , make the infos into pieces for bertter understanding what is it)
After
 Summarize the text in your own words (make a short sketch outline, use your own words para
mlaaman mo if your understanding is right)
 Talk to someone about the authors ideas (do brainstorming to get validate understanding coz we
have different understanding or perspectives)
 Identify and reread difficult parts of the text (highlight the ideas you do not understand to save time)
 Define words on your vocabulary list and practice using them (the best way to learn the language is
to use it)
 Summarizing – “reducing text to one-third or one-quarter its original size, clearly articulating the
author’s meaning and retaining main ideas”. – Buckley (2004) (Fit to Print)
- “involves stating a work’s thesis and main ideas, simply, briefly, and accurately”. – Diane Hacker
(2008) (Canadian Writer’s Reference)
- Creating a condensed version that covers main points to express most important facts or ideas of a
particular subject in a short and clear form – dictionaries
Techniques in summarizing
1. Read the work first to understand the author’s intent.
2. One of the summarization techniques you can do is to present information through facts, skills and
concept in visual formats.
3. To avoid difficulty, you need first to know the main points and the supporting details.
4. You need to analyze the text to save time in thinking what you will do.
5. Think what information you will put in your summary.
6. One of the best things to do in auto summarizing is restating the words into different one.
7. You will fully understand what the document is when you organize all ideas.
8. One of the things you can do is to write down all information in a coherent and precise form.
9. You can also decide to represent information through using dimensional constructions in representing
concepts, skills or facts.
10. Paraphrasing is one of the skills you can do in writing a summary.
Other Summarizing Techniques
Somebody Wanted But So Then
Somebody: Who is the story about?
Wanted: What does the main charter want?
But: Identify a problem that the main character encountered.
So: How does the main character solve the problem? Then: Tell how the story ends
SAAC Method
State: name of the article, book, or story
Assign: the name of the author
Action: what the author is doing (example: tells, explains)
Complete: complete the sentence or summary with keywords and important details
THE JOURNALIST QUESTION (5 W's, 1 H )
Who is the story about?
What did they do?
When did the action take place?
Where did the story happen?
Why did the main character do what he/she did?
How did the main character do what he/she did?
First, Then, Finally
First. What happened first? Include the main character and main event/action.
Then. What key details took place during the event/action?
Finally. What were the results of the event/action?
GIVE ME THE GIST
Gist – what the story is all about, the summary of the story, not retelling of all details
Paraphrasing- presenting the ideas and information using one’s own words
- Important academic skill that every learner needs to acquire and succeed in the academe
- Not simply taking what someone has written and changing a few words to make it your own
- It is about translating another person's ideas into your own words and in reduced form
- Clearly restating your own words ideas or thoughts of author
- It is use to deliver information in a more concise way
- Involves taking passage either spoke or writer and rewording it
How to Paraphrase
1. Change the structure of the sentence. Using active voice is preferable to give impact except in the field of
scientific text where passive voice is usually used
2. Change the words in the sentence
3. Look for words or phrases that can be restated in a simpler way using simple sentences
4. Use a thesaurus or dictionary to find synonymous words
*SABIHIN MO SALAMAT PAPIII*