Reading approach

-One of the methods in teaching English

-Solve student reading problems

-Demand students to read more ;improving their knowledge

4 Types of Reading Approach

1. Skimming
-getting the summary of a text
-focus on the main idea/general overview
-does not give much attention to small details

2. Scanning

-Read shorter text to extract accurate detailed information

-locate specific details

-Skips a large portion of a text

3. intensive

-Read and familiarize smallest details

-Specific task is given, output is required

4. Extensive

-done for fun and past time

-develop general reading skills

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21st Literary Genre

Graphic Fiction

-Narrative in prose form conveyed to readers through comic book format or dimensions

Features of Graphic Fiction

1. Autographic provides sense of intimacy

2. Interactivity through image panels
 3. Language, Syntax, meaning is built through connected images
4. Combined look and Screen Experience together

Elements of a graphic fiction

1.Image panels- contains one scene

2. Gutter- space between panels

3. Bleed

4. Speech balloons

5. Thought balloons

6. Motion Lines- intensity of motion

7.Sound effects

8.Caption/Narration- information about the character/scene

9. Background color-depends on the mood

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Examples pa:

1. In the Shadow of No Tower: 9/11

-Art Spiegelmen
- tourist attack in America

2. The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers

-Sarnath Banerjee

-exploiting the myth of Wandering Jew

3. Louis Riel

- Chester Brown

- fictionalized violent rebellion

Flash fiction

Imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from one to thousands word. Other names for
this are micro stories, postcard fiction, nanotales and short stories.

Characteristic of flash fiction

1. Extreme Brevity
2. Surprising Ending
3. Complete plot

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Other examples ng flash fiction

1. Angels and Blueberries

-Tara Campbell
-Explanation for the color of the skies

2. Taylor Swift

- Hugh Behm- Steinbeirg

- weird story of how you can order a perfectly clone of Taylor Swift

3. Unnecessary Things

-Tatyana Tolstaya

-finding an old teddy bear

Fables

A brief story illustration moral or general truth about human nature

Often includes animals or animated objects as principal characters

Ex. The Plant and the grasshopper

Parable

A short story design to allegorically teach religious principle/belief, moral lessons and general truths

Include real and literal occurrences that anyone can relate

Ex. The Plant Sower

Multimedia

-an essential avenue in transforming unique adaptation of literary genre

Multimedia is any electronic application that further teach/educate students lessons

-use both words and pictures

Using interactive digital tools in telling a story is called Digital storytelling.

Uses of Multimedia

Audiobooks- great for second-language learners

Song files and Music Video- Compare social norms In diff. eras

Various components of multimedia

1. Video- primary component of multimedia

Some of its foemats are: wmv, avi, mped, flash

Other video formats:

MPEG- Moving Pictures Expert Group
-popular vid format in the web

AVI- Audio Video Interleave

-used in videos camera and tv hardware
-created by Microsoft

WMA- Windows Media Audio

-created by Microsoft
-plays well in windows computer

Flash (swf)-Small Web File

-Deliver digital videos on the internet

Mp3
-Sound part of MPEG
-Music Player

MP4
-can also be used as audio

2. Animation
-Form of art
-Interactive
-Flash ang most common platform for animation
 3. Test
-Most common type of multimedia component

4. Images
-needed to create videos and animation
-png. And jpg. And format nito

5. Audio

-Voiceovers

-Audio file include special effects and bg music

Characteristics of multimedia

-Multimedia can be used in presentation, making it more fun and interesting

-Has different viewing options: projection or media player

-can download multimedia presentation and play it live

-Make information conveyed easier for users

-improved learning experience by combining various form of media

Benefits of multimedia

- Digital story telling improve student’s knowledge about a specific sub

- Improve student’s overall academic performance. IN particular, multimedia in school is used in
self-directed learning
- Students will be able to assess their time and manage what needs to be added in the leasrning
activities.

Basic elements of a short story

1. Character

Has 2 types

Protagonist-main character

Antagonist -against sa protag

2. Settings
Fist important element
The time and place of the story
3. Plot
Flow of events happened in the story

4. Conflict
Complication/tension
Gives fuel to the story

5. Theme
The motif of the story
The author is commenting about

Inciting incident
-reinforce core values of stake in the story

Rising Action
-raise the stakes and rachet up the tension

Dilemma
-heart of the story
-crux of the story

Climax