Objective:
Participants will be able to understand and practice different types of reading techniques
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Total Time: 90 Minutes
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Material required:
Newspapers (ideally one of each student, otherwise 1 for each group)
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Instructor Note:
Our participants have been reading their handbooks to understand concepts but this session will make them understand some useful reading techniques. This session should encourage them to spend some time everyday reading newspapers or articles or books to gain knowledge.
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Opening Protocol:
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Greet the participants
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Take attendance
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In pairs, ask participants to share with each other how they are feeling
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Recap the previous session by asking 1-2 participants to share with the class, what they learnt and did in the previous session
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5 Minutes
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Concept Discussion:
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Divide the class in two groups
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Ask group 1 to quickly read and discuss Scanning technique of reading
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Ask group 2 to educate themselves on Skimming technique of reading
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Give them 2 minutes to read the concept from their handbooks
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Then ask any one person from each group to explain the technique in 1 minute
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Help students understanding the concept if they are finding it difficult
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Tell them that we are going to do some exercises today to practice quick reading
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5 Minutes
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Activity 1: NewsPaper Scanning and Skimming
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Distribute newspapers among students. If we don’t have newspapers for each student, then divide students in groups and then distribute the available newspapers
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Tell them that we are going to play a game.
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The trainer will name any category of news and ask the students to quickly scan their newspapers to find the news of that category. Trainer can give 5 categories/ keywords-
Prime Minister
Government of India
Indian cricket team
Entertainment
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After students have practiced scanning the newspaper, ask them to now do the skimming for any news. Give them 10 minutes to read the news/article using skimming technique
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After 10 minutes invite atleast 3 students infront and ask them to summarise the news they have read
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The idea is to encourage students to skim the page, that is, quickly look over the content without reading it in detail. Students should not read the text in detail but quickly go through it to glean the main facts.
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Highlight that we do not need to spend a lot of time reading; a quick look can give us the required information.
Debrief:
Ask if they were able to scan or skim the information from the newspaper. Was it a challenge to quickly glean the information? Were they able to interpret the information? Ask any volunteer to differentiate between scanning and skimming
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25 Minutes
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