READING SKILL 2

Reading skill

Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills, but often develops along with them, especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages, particularly.
Micro-skills

Here are some of the micro-skills involved in reading. The reader has to:


* decipher the script. In an alphabetic system or a syllabary, this means establishing a relationship between sounds and symbols. In a pictograph system, it means associating the meaning of the words with written symbols.
* recognize vocabulary.
* pick out key words, such as those identifying topics and main ideas.
* figure out the meaning of the words, including unfamiliar vocabulary, from the (written) context.
* recognize grammatical word classes: noun, adjective, etc.
* detect sentence constituents, such as subject, verb, object, prepositions, etc.
* recognize basic syntactic patterns.
* reconstruct and infer situations, goals and participants.
* use both knowledge of the world and lexical and grammatical cohesive devices to make the foregoing inferences, predict outcomes, and infer links and connections among the parts of the text.
* get the main point or the most important information.
* distinguish the main idea from supporting details.
* adjust reading strategies to different reading purposes, such as skimming for main ideas or studying in-depth.


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