Reading

Skills

Types of Reading
Approaches:

Basal Reading Approach

Phonics Approach
Linguistics Approach
Language Experience
Individualised Reading

Basal Reading
Approach
Basal readers are textbooks used to
teach reading and associated skills to
schoolchildren
A collection of short stories designed
to illustrate and develop specific skills,
which are taught in a strict predetermined sequence
helps children not only know how to
read but also to become readers
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Advantages:
It is pre-planned thus eases the load
on teachers, particularly those who
are inexperienced.
Specific skills can be easily targeted,
tested, and remediated. Those with
very controlled vocabulary usage
may ease difficulties for beginner or
weak readers.

Phonic Approach
The phonics approach teaches word
recognition through learning graphemephoneme (letter-sound) associations.
The student learns vowels, consonants, and
blends, and learns to sound out words by
combining sounds and blending them into
words.
By associating speech sounds with letters
the student learns to recognize new and
unfamiliar words
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Phonic Approach
Activities:
Meaningful sound input for
vocabulary
Phonological awareness
Letter-sound correspondences

Linguistics Approach

 This method uses a "whole word" approach.

Words are taught in word families, or similar spelling
patterns, and only as whole words.
The student is not directly taught the relationship between
letters and sounds, but learns them through minimal word
differences.
As the child progresses, words that have irregular spellings
are introduced as sight words

Language
Experience

It is an approach to reading in which

the childs own language and
experiences is used to create reading
material.
It is not a new idea but the computer
and digital camera or scanner make
the creation of attractive individual
books very feasible.

Advantages
It integrates the four language processes.
It is child centered.brings new reader to
the text rather than the other way around.
Aids comprehension..the reader and
composer are one and the same person.
The child understands that text carries
meaning
It is enjoyable and allows the child and his
or her life to become known.

Individualised
learning
Individualized reading is an effective way to
stimulate students to read on their own--as
an experience rather than as an exercise.
Individualized reading is a teacher-guided
program in the reading of fiction which
allows the student to choose what he reads
over a continuous period of time.
Individual conferences are held periodically
to discuss the books the student has read
and to check his progress

Multisensory
Approach

This method assumes that some children

learn best when content is presented in
several ways.
Multisensory approaches that use tracing,
hearing, writing, and seeing of letters and
words are often referred to as VAKT
(visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile)
methods.
Multisensory techniques can be used with
both phonics and linguistic approaches