Reading Approach
Definition
Reading Approach
Reading Approach is an approach wherein
students are demanded to read more to
improve their knowledge and get new ideas.
This approach is one way of solving students’
reading problems.
Reading Approach
Inferencing, guessing, and predicting are
important skills developed in reading. By
reading, students will know about the
different of culture by reading across cultural
understanding, and they will learn how to
pronounce the words correctly. In reading
approach, students are expected to improve
their English skills.
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Approach in Reading
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Skimming Scanning
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Extensive
Reading
Skimming
In skimming, the main idea of a text is quickly
identified. The goal is to read shorter texts to
extract accurate detailed information.
Skimming is done at a speed three to four times
faster than regular reading. People often skim
when they have lots of material to read in a
limited amount of time. Some students will read
the first and last paragraphs using headings,
summarizes and other organizers as they
move down the page or screen.
Skimming
Some might also read the title, subtitles,
subheadings, and illustrations. Other people
consider reading the first sentence of each
paragraph. Skimming works well to find
dates, names, and places. It might be used to
review graphs, tables, and charts. This
technique is useful when you are seeking
specific information rather than reading
for comprehension.
Scanning
Scanning is quickly reading a Scanning is also used for the
text to get the summary of it. reader to find answers to
It is a technique wherein questions. Once a student
students search for keywords scanned the document, they will
or ideas. Scanning involves go back and skim it.
moving eyes quickly down the
page seeking specific words
and phrases.
Extensive reading
Extensive Reading is an approach to
language learning, including foreign
language learning, by means of a
large amount of reading. The
reader’s view and review of
unfamiliar words in a specific context
will allow the reader to infer the
word’s meaning, to learn unknown
words.
Extensive reading
Extensive Reading is the free
reading of books and other
written material that is not too
difficult for readers. Extensive
Reading is sometimes called
Free Voluntary Reading.
Writing a Close
Analysis and Critical
Interpretation of
Literary Texts
Critical analysis
Critical analysis is a careful
examination and evaluation of a text,
image, or other work or
performance.
Close reading
Close reading is deep analysis of
how a literary text works; it is both a
reading process and something you
include in a literary analysis paper,
though in a refined form.
Close reading
Close reading is a method of analyzing
literary works which gives focus on the
particular details of a passage or text in
order to have a precise and deep
understanding of the text; its form,
meaning and even the author’s style of
writing.
Steps in making close
analysis and critical
interpretation of literary
text.
Here are the steps to do the close analysis
and critical interpretation of literary text.
Step 1: Read the passage.
Take notes as you read.
Step 2: Analyze the passage
Step 3: Develop a descriptive thesis
Step 4: Construct an argument about the
passage
Step 5: Develop an outline based on your
thesis.
Representative texts
and authors from Latin
America and Africa.
Latin American
Literature
Latin American Literature
Latin American Literature refers to
written and oral works created by
literary writers in South America,
and the Caribbean.
Latin American Literature
The languages which Latin American
authors usually use in writing are Spanish,
Portuguese, English, or a language native
to their specific country. Latin American
literature is the literature of the Spanish-
speaking countries of the Western
Hemisphere.
Latin American Literature
Among those included in the Latin American literature
are the Dominican Latina writer Julia Alvarez with her
novel, In the Name of Salome, rising contemporary
literature star Yuri Herrera from Mexico with his
groundbreaking novel, Signs Preceding the End of the
World, Pulitzer Prize-winning Junot Diaz with one of
his earlier short stories, “How to Date a Brown Girl
(black girl,white girl, or halfie),” and Haitian Edwidge
Danticat’s short story, “Ghosts.”
African Literature
Africa is called the “Dark Continent” because most
people know very little about this continent since it
remained unexplored over a long period of time. Their
literature contains the body of traditional oral and
written works expressed in Afro-Asiatic, African, and
European languages.
African Literature
Modern African literatures were born in the educational
systems imposed by colonialism, with models drawn
from Europe rather than existing African traditions.
African Literature
Among the African literary texts and authors are :
Poems, “My Black is Beautiful (Woman)” and “My
Black is Beautiful (Man)” by Naomi Johnson, Short
Story, “A Private Experience” by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie, Short Story, “Inscape” by Yaa Gyasi, Short
Story, “War for God” by Zaynab Quadri and “The
Sack” by Namwali Serpell.
