WEEK4: (A) READING FOR SPEED. (B) TECHNIQUES OF SPEED READING - SURVEYING. (C) CONSONANT SOUNDS - FRICATIVES.

                                       WEEK 4

                            ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TOPICS - (A) READING FOR SPEED.

                 (B) TECHNIQUES OF SPEED READING - SURVEYING.

                 (C) CONSONANT SOUNDS - FRICATIVES.

Specific Objectives - By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. Mention bad reading habits.
2. Explain the term "Surveying" and survey appropriately a given comprehension passage.
3. Write out fricative sounds.
4. Write out from a given list, words that contain fricatives.

                     INSTRUMENTIONAL PROCEDURE

                                      Period 1

                     Topic - Reading For Speed

Step 1- Meaning 

Reading rate is the speed at which you read something. Readers adjust their reading rate based on their purpose for reading, the difficulty of the reading material, and their knowledge about the subject.

It is one thing to be able to read, and another to comprehend. Yet another to read and comprehend within the shortest time limit. To read and comprehend within the shortest time is a habit one needs to acquire through repeated practice of speed reading or reading for speed.

Step 2- Bad Reading Habits

(1) Reading without a purpose- For success in reading, you must know why you are reading and particularly what you want to achieve from your reading. What you are reading and why you are reading help to determine how you read. (2) Head movement – Poor readers often move their heads unconsciously from side to side as they read. This slows down the reading speed.

(3) Pointing to words – Poor readers point to words with their finger, a ruler, a pencil or a pen as they read. Since the eye can move faster than the hands and fingers, reading is slowed down considerable by pointing, Comprehension is also affected.

(4) Vocalization – This refers to whispering and or saying the words to oneself as one reads. It is reading aloud. Vocalization adversely affects reading rate and therefore, comprehension also

                          Period 2:

Topic - Techniques of Speed Reading - Surveying.

Step 1 -  Meaning of Surveying:

To survey means to take a bird's eye view of what you are now set to study. It is all about running your eyes through the passage or book that you are about to read.

Step 2 - Surveying Proper:

As you run your eyes through the passage or book, you should bear the following in mind:

1. To have a grasp of what the title is all about;
2.  What the subtitle look like;
3. How interesting, active and catchy the introduction is;
4. If it is a book, have a shallow view of the chapters, how many chapters has the book and what are the lengths of the chapters;
5. If it is a passage, run your eyes through the length of the passage, look over the heading, title, illustration, charts, photographs and any words in bold face or italics.

Evaluation Questions:

1. Mention four bad reading habits you have learnt.
2. Is surveying? Survey the passage on "The Buffon and the Countryman" on page 54 of your New Concept English.
3. Write out from the following list the words that contain fricatives. Underline the sound in each word: large, thick, phonology, mention, ocean, help, march, confession, this, weather, leisure, zealous, dear, take, dress, voltage, pin.        

Assignment:

Answer the comprehension questions on "The Buffon and the Countryman" on page 55 of your New Concept English.