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Reading & Reading Comprehension P. Rules. Rule One Follow Nafees Sahib Rule Two If not ,please consult Rule Three . Rule Three Please refer Rule One. What is reading comprehension?. Understanding a written text:
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Rules • Rule One • Follow Nafees Sahib • Rule Two • If not ,please consult Rule Three. • Rule Three • Please refer Rule One
What is reading comprehension? Understanding a written text: Extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible
There are 2 main reasons for reading: • Reading for pleasure • Reading for information or Exam (CSS) • To find out something • To do something with the information you get
How do we read – the main ways of reading are: • Skimming: quickly running one’s eyes over the text • Scanning: quickly going through a text to find specific information • Extensive reading: reading long texts • Reading for pleasure • Intensive reading: reading short texts to extract information • Reading for detail
Skills involved when reading: • Recognizing • Understanding information • Interpreting • Transcending information • Scanning • Skimming • Identifying the main point
Rules Let’s practice! In answering questions on an unseen passage proceed • Read the passage given carefully if necessary till you understand clearly • its subject or theme and what is said about the subject or main theme • Ask yourself, “What is the main theme of the passage I am reading? • What does the author say about the subject? • Can I put in a few words the substance of what he says? • Read the questions one by one carefully, and find out fully whether you fully understand them • Now take up the first question and find out to which part of the passage it refers to
Cont… • Write answers to the questions in your words • Do not adopt the language of the given passage • The answer should be brief and to the point • No attempt should be made to show one’s knowledge by saying things that are not included in the original passage • Strictly confined by what the passage says • Revise your answers and examine them carefully to see that the clear and complete • If an answer is too long, you must further compress it by omitting unnecessary details or by remodeling sentences • Correct all mistakes in spelling, grammar and idiom, and see that your sentences are properly punctuated • Let the language of answers be simple and direct • Answer in the Same Tense as of Question.
Ability to read properly and understand not only the general sense of a given passage but its particular implications is becoming more important in modern education • we should read not to contradict and confute but ‘to weigh and consider’ Becon • Must learn to think actively
Whose army was twenty times as numerous as Clive’s. • What two words are used to denote Meer Jafar, • What two words in the passage describe the quality of the British troops? • Give two adjectives in the passage to describe, Siraj-ud-Dulah’s state of mind. • Where did the Nabob’s army lie? (Two words from the passage). • Where had Clive encamped? (One word from the passage). • What did the Clive fear most in his own captains? • Mention three words used in the passage which are synonyms of ‘army’. • Why they did so • Who was the Chief.
