Effect of the reading performance of elementary pupils on their academic performance: towards a guide
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Reading is a vehicle to learning. It is an important skill of a person should posses whether young or old. This develops literacy for a person to be able to function effectively in society. The literate person has access to the collected writing and experiences
of people and their culture.
Reading is a
means of language acquisition, of communication and of sharing information and ideas. It is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader's prior knowledge, experiences, attitude and language community which is culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires continuous practices, development and refinement.
Reading comprehension is the ability to understand what is - where words have context and texts have meaning. read Reading comprehension skills allow us to read proficiently, learn effectively, solve-problem, strategize, conceptualize and succeed in life. Without reading comprehension skills, many students are left behind. Reading comprehension is the heart and goal of reading, since the purpose of all reading is to gather meaning from the printed page. If a pupil says words in a passage without gathering their meaning, one would hesitate to call that reading.
By age six to seven children should be sensitive to such characteristics of stories as the main character, sequence of events, inferences, the motives and feelings of characters and sentence order. As they get older, children should be more efficient at recognizing and recalling facts, recognizing and inferring main themes and relationships, drawing conclusions, making judgments and generalizations, predicting outcomes, applying what has been learned, and following directions. The comprehension goals of the intermediate grades address these abilities as well as those required for independent study: skimming, using reference materials, outlining, summarizing, altering reading rate and focus as the purpose of reading changes, use of headings, note taking and so on. For many pupils, reading comprehension is a major problem.
Reading performance of elementary grade school pupils has a great impact on the deterioration of their achievement levels on all subject areas year after year. The key factor that may directly affect their academic performance is on their low or high reading performance. Premised along the aforementioned, the researcher came up with the title "Effect of the Reading Performance of Elementary Pupils on their Academic Performance: Towards a Guide".
of people and their culture.
Reading is a
means of language acquisition, of communication and of sharing information and ideas. It is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader's prior knowledge, experiences, attitude and language community which is culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires continuous practices, development and refinement.
Reading comprehension is the ability to understand what is - where words have context and texts have meaning. read Reading comprehension skills allow us to read proficiently, learn effectively, solve-problem, strategize, conceptualize and succeed in life. Without reading comprehension skills, many students are left behind. Reading comprehension is the heart and goal of reading, since the purpose of all reading is to gather meaning from the printed page. If a pupil says words in a passage without gathering their meaning, one would hesitate to call that reading.
By age six to seven children should be sensitive to such characteristics of stories as the main character, sequence of events, inferences, the motives and feelings of characters and sentence order. As they get older, children should be more efficient at recognizing and recalling facts, recognizing and inferring main themes and relationships, drawing conclusions, making judgments and generalizations, predicting outcomes, applying what has been learned, and following directions. The comprehension goals of the intermediate grades address these abilities as well as those required for independent study: skimming, using reference materials, outlining, summarizing, altering reading rate and focus as the purpose of reading changes, use of headings, note taking and so on. For many pupils, reading comprehension is a major problem.
Reading performance of elementary grade school pupils has a great impact on the deterioration of their achievement levels on all subject areas year after year. The key factor that may directly affect their academic performance is on their low or high reading performance. Premised along the aforementioned, the researcher came up with the title "Effect of the Reading Performance of Elementary Pupils on their Academic Performance: Towards a Guide".
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