TKT REFLECTIVE BLOG Portugal Mery 9A: unit 5 reading

UNIT 5 READING

Reading is one of the four skills we have in English, this is a receptive skill the same as listening. I am totally sure that reading and writing are subjects that go together because to accomplish any of them we must have a good level of knowledge and as in the TKT book suggest that “we need to understand the language of the text at word level, sentence level or whole text level” (Mary Spratt, 2014) . Moreover if we just imagine any text immediately a long text with full letters appear that’s why some of us do not like to read at all. But we have to understand that discourse is connected by grammar, lexis and our knowledge. Another important aspect is that we need to see the connection between sentences which is called coherence and the grammatical links between sentences which is known as cohesion. From the same token, we can find some subskills into the reading skill: reading for specific information which is scanning reading for detail, deducing meaning from context, understanding text structure, reading for gist (skimming) inferring and predicting. Each one of these subskills help us to understand that when we read we do it for any specific purpose like for example when we read a section of the newspaper it could be to find a job or another section just to know about the news.

In short, a good reader must be able to understand any text type because it help us to be good writers and being a good writer includes knowing that texts have different lengths and layouts.and that is a good idea to encourage our little children to read a lot through pictograms and then making them read more complicated readings depending on their level of knowledge.

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Encorage little children to read