Reading Methods

SQ3R Method

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What is the topic Question?

 

·         What are the supporting details?

·         What are the most specific supporting details?

·         What are the concluding sentences?

01.  Reading strategies

SQ3R Method

S          -           Survey -           See the over view of the given text

Q         -           Question -       Make question related to the text

R          -           Read    -           Read the text to see answers

R          -           Recite  -           Recite the answers in your mind

R          -           Review            -           If you have forgotten the answers read the text again

When we analyze a text we use transition signals and connectors

            *First of all

            *Not only that

            *Consequences

            *Finally

02. Reading for pleasure

             *  Printed books

            * Electronic books

Reading for different age levels.

           

            1.            Yr.7    Training for reading                                                                                                  2                                 

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            4.             Yr.12   Children’s Literature

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            10.           Yr.12

              11.           Young adult Literature

             12.           Yr.18

            13.

Over 18 years    Adult Literature

·         Principal has to take care of the children’s literature young adult literature.

2.1       What is literature?

             Different char actors and qualities f people.

             Imaginations of the writers

             Re-created the imagined world

2.2       Genres of literature.

2.3       Literature can change the society. Leaders of countries frighten of literature.

2.4       Why Literature?

            Literature is to civilize the human being.

There is an animal in every human being.

            We need literature to tame the animal in human being.

            At the very beginning religion civilized the human being.

It is through sermons, teachings they civilized man.

They preach about what will happen to them in future. But not what is happening now.

There is contradiction what is happening in present and what is to come.

Literature creates something new.

Literature creates present situations.

The aims and objectives are perfectly achieved. But the problem is people do not read.

Genres of Literature

·         Drama – stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action

·         Classic – fiction that has become part of an accepted literary canon, widely taught in schools

·         Comic/Graphic Novel – scripted fiction told visually in artist drawn pictures, usually in panels and speech bubbles

·         Crime/Detective – fiction about a committed crime, how the criminal gets caught, and the repercussions of the crime

·         Fable – narration demonstrating a useful truth, especially in which animals speak as humans; legendary, supernatural tale

·         Fairy tale – story about fairies or other magical creatures, usually for children

·         Fanfiction – fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular TV series, movie, etc.

·         Fantasy – fiction with strange or otherworldly settings or characters; fiction which invites suspension of reality

·         Fiction narrative – literary works whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact

·         Fiction in verse – full-length novels with plot, subplot(s), theme(s), major and minor characters, in which the narrative is presented in verse form (usually free verse)

·         Folklore – the songs, stories, myths, and proverbs of a people or "folk" as handed down by word of mouth

·         Historical fiction – story with fictional characters and events in a historical setting

·         Horror – fiction in which events evoke a feeling of dread and sometimes fear in both the characters and the reader

·         Humour – Usually a fiction full of fun, fancy, and excitement, meant to entertain and sometimes cause intended laughter; but can be contained in all genres

·         Legend – story, sometimes of a national or folk hero, that has a basis in fact but also includes imaginative material

·         Magical Realism  – story where magical or unreal elements play a natural part in an otherwise realistic environment

·         Metafiction – also known as romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, uses self-reference to draw attention to itself as a work of art, while exposing the "truth" of a story

·         Mystery – this is fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets

·         Mythology – legend or traditional narrative, often based in part on historical events, that reveals human behavior and natural phenomena by its symbolism; often pertaining to the actions of the gods

·         Mythopoeia – this is fiction where characters from religious mythology, traditional myths, folklores and history are recast into a re-imagined realm created by the author.

·         Realistic fiction – story that is true to life

·         Science fiction – story based on impact of actual, imagined, or potential science, usually set in the future or on other planets

·         Short story – fiction of such brevity that it supports no subplots

·         Suspense/Thriller – fiction about harm about to befall a person or group and the attempts made to evade the harm

·         Tall tale – humorous story with blatant exaggerations, swaggering heroes who do the impossible with nonchalance

·         Western – set in the American Old West frontier and typically set in the late eighteenth to late nineteenth century

 Literary Elements

01.  Characters

·         Human beings

·         Animals

·         Imaginations

Ø  Main Characters

·         Protagonist/ Antagonist

02.  Conflicts

·         Man Vs Environment

·         Man Vs Society

·         Man Vs Man

·         Man Vs His self

 

o   For shadowing

o   Setting

o   Climax