ERDY JOHN R.

GALDIANO December 07, 2020

Azpetia National High School Prosperidad VI

Nature of Reading Annex A

Anticipation Guide:

Directions:

This activity is done in five (5) mins.

1. In your group choose a Facilitator, who will facilitate the discussion, a Recorder,
who will record the discussion, and a Reporter, who will report your answers in
the plenary.
2. Read the statements.
3. Discuss with your group as to whether you agree or disagree with the given
statements.
4. Your group should come up with a consensus.
5. The reporter with report your answers in the plenary

Agree Disagree
____/__1. Before children learn to read they should know the sounds of _______
Most letters.
______2. The more symbols (letters or words) there are in a text, the ____/___
Longer it will take to read it.
___/___3. We gather meaning from what we read. _______
___/___4. When one reads one tries to find some cues in an effort to _______
Make sense of the written text.
___/___5. Visual information provided by maps, charts, or pictures help _______
Young readers store and retrieve information they have read.
___/___6. A reader who is familiar with the subject matter of a text _______
Already has a basis for making sense of it.
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Nature or Reading Annex B

Questions for discussion After the viewing activity

Directions:

This activity is done in ten (10) mins.

1. In your group choose a Facilitator, who will facilitate the discussion, a Recorder,
who will record the discussion, and a Reporter, who will report your answers in
the plenary.
2. Answer the given questions.
3. For question number 3 use the chart bellow

Questions:

1. What is Reading? What does dynamic process mean?

Answer: It is an active aka “alive” process between the students’ interaction of the text
to be able to get the meaning. They will utilize their utmost ability to activate their
schema or prior knowledge, use reading strategies, and adapt to reading
situation/context.

2. What are the important and/or crucial elements needed by the reader to
be able to interact with the text.
Answer: Their ability to activate prior knowledge, use reading strategies, and adapt to
reading situations.

3. What are the five alternative views about reading?

Answer: Reading as a skill, process, comprehension, development, and strategy.

4. Using the Chart provided fill in the column as indicated:

Nature of Reading Key points/Your take Its implication to you as What do you think
(Views about Reading) away reading are the challenge/s
teacher/supervisor/schoo based on what is/are
l head the reality/ies in the
field?
1. Reading as Skill Reading is a complex Reading is the first step Do not read for
process of towards literacy in any just words; read for
identifying/recognizin language. It gives validity ideas. Every word
g written signs to the written form of gives an idea or
language and brings it many ideas, but two
into action.   words together might
give students a
totally different idea.
2. Reading as Process Reading is a Reading is the first step Some students don’t
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meaning-making of education. Students
process may learn a lot of things
through real-life
experience and by
listening to the people
around them, but reading
will provide them with an
experience which cannot
be gained in real life. 
3. Reading as Interaction between Reading provides us with
Comprehension the reader, the text, many sources of
and the context. knowledge, information,
feelings, ideas, content,
style and language from
which we can enjoy a lot
of benefits.
4. Reading as Reading should start A good reading skill
Development from where the helps students in many
students are cases like tests and
exams. If a student read
a text efficiently, half of
the job will be done.
5. Reading as Strategy Students must learn Teachers should use
to use the Cognitive texts based on the
and Metacognitive interests of the reader.
strategies When a reader reads a
text with the purpose of
pleasure, s/he tends to
connect it with his prior
knowledge and
experience. In this case,
s/he reads to stimulate
his/her intellect and to
satisfy the emotional
demand of his/her mind.
have a good
foundation of reading
in their early years.
Students with no
comprehension tends
to be categorized
under instructional,
but mostly frustration
readers. They need
to have a strong
anchor in
comprehension to be
able to become
better readers.
Improving their
reading skill will
make the students
think and act faster in
exams and in real life
situations also.
There are a lot of
students, specially in
the boondocks, who
are non-readers
when they go to high
school. This poses a
great challenge for
high school teachers
to go back to the
foundations of
reading, considering
the correct strategies,
and teach the
students how to read.