Rpublic of the Phillipines

BULACAN AGRICULTURAL STATE COLLEGE

Pinaod, San Ildefonso, Bulacan

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Eng. 135 Remedial Instruction in English

“Teaching Rate and Study Skills”

Dr. Alicia S.P. Gomez

Jessa L.Villanueva

BEEd II-A

Teaching Rate and Study Skills

Rate and Comprehension

Smith and Dechant explain the relationship between rate and comprehension in reading

as follows: To discuss the rate of reading adequately, it should be emphasized that it means rate

of comprehending printed or written material. Although comprehension remains of primary

importance and rate has no meaning apart from comprehension, rate of reading is worth

considering.

Roldan has classified reading rate or speed into three based on the reader’s purpose and

the difficulty of the material: study speed, average speed, and fast or selective speed.

1. Study Speed – it is the slowest reading speed and is used for material that requires

careful reading owing the reader’s purpose.

2. Average Speed – it is the one most often applied by adult readers. This rate would be

approximately 250 words per minute and it is normally used for easier textbooks, novels

newspaper and so on. It can be used for most prose material, whether factual descriptive

or narrative.

3. Fast or Selective Speed – this is actually method of reading selectively of reading only

those portion of the material that are necessary for the reader’s purpose reading

selectively is one of the most important skills of the mature. There are two types of

selective reading: skimming and scanning. Skimming is the fastest speed of reader

capable of. The reader skim-reads when he wishes to cover reading material in hurry or to

discern the writer’s core message. Scanning on the other hand is looking over the

material hastily in search of particular bits of information. The best example of scanning

is looking a telephone directory.

Activity 1 Word Recognition Skills

Direction: Quickly locate the word that is the same to the keyword. Write the letter of

the correct answer on your sheet.

A B C D

1. Match watch match mash much

2. Shall shell hall shall sham

3. Trash rash track trace trash

4. Wolf walk wolf woke wake

5. Robe robes rob robe road

6. Four fore four pour forty

7. Bud bed bud buddy bead

8. Corn corn core cork curb

9. Rite rate rote right rite

10. Ledge lodge lead letter ledge

11. Hammer hamper stammer hammer pound

12. Kitten mitten smitten bitten kitten

13. Adopt adopt adapt arrange adoption

14. Special special serial spender species

15. Polite policy politics polite bright

Study Skills and Library Skills

Teaching suggestion

Reading a Textbook

Title Page Gives the title, author and publisher.

Copyright Page Gives the date publication.

Table of Contents Lists chapter titles and page number for the main ideas that

covered in the book.

Index Lists the alphabetically the subjects and the pages numbers

On which the subject are discussed.

Reading Reference Material

Encyclopedia - is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information

from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.

Thesaurus - is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of

meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which

contains definitions and pronunciations.

Biographical Reference – this were you can find the biography of the famous people.

Entertainers * Politician

Scientist * Sportspeople

Writers

Atlases - A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and

graphic analyses.

Almanacs - is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers'

planting dates, tide tables, and tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged

according to the calendar

Dictionary - is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed

alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and

other information.

Source: Teaching Reading in the Elementary GradesErlinda G. Tajero

Gerry C. Catchillar(Coordinator)

Published by National BookstoreCopyright 2004

Activity2 Vocabulary Words

TO A LOST ONEAngela Manalang-Gloria

I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilightHaunts a re-entangled trail,

And your dreams will linger strangely with the musicOf a phantom lover’s tale,

You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,I shall come to you again

With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,And the melody of rain.

You shall not forget. Dust will peer into yourWindow, tragic-eyed and still,

And unbidden, startle you into remembranceWith its hand upon the still.

Answer this vocabulary words:

1. to visit often

2. the period between sunset and dark

3. to twist together

4. to proceed slowly

5. A ghost

6. Darker stage of twilight

7. To alarm

8. The light from star