5. Dealing with Reading Skills
This unit focuses on the development of reading comprehension skills. The unit begins with a discussion of the reading comprehension process and the kinds of knowledge we employ in understanding written texts. Models of the reading process are then presented. The unit continues with a discussion of reading purposes, texts and reading skills and how the three interact. The last part of the unit highlights the stages of a reading lesson, the purpose of each stage and kinds of activities that can be used in each stage to develop students’ reading comprehension skills.
