Notes - 2
Notes - 2
Notes - 2
Learning Disabilities:
1.Dyslexia – difficulty with language in its various uses.(not always reading)
2.Dyspraxia—Condition effecting physical co-ordination causing difficulty to make an appropriate
body response.
3.Dysgraphia – Difficulty with the act of writing in the technical as well as the expressive sense.
There may also be difficulty with spelling.
4.Dyscalculia—Difficulty with calculations.
5.Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) — Children with this disorder act
impulsively and are easily distracted.
Types of Reading:
(i) Silent Reading:-The purpose of silent reading is for comprehension. It is mainly suggested for
higher classes. The learner reads a text in their own pace which enables better understanding, move
quickly to the information needed, to involve all children, to allow rereading if needed.
(ii) Reading Aloud:- Reading aloud by a teacher/learner can stimulate imagination and emotions,
enriches their vocabularies and encourage lifelong enjoyment of reading. It also helps to realize the
supra segmental features of language.
(iii) Skimming: By skimming in reading it is meant that going through the reading text quickly in
order to get an overall idea of the text and the intention of the writer. When we skim through a text,
we run our eyes over the text to get the gist of it. Usually, the people in service do skimming the
headlines in the daily.
(iv) Scanning: We sometimes scan a text to find a particular kind of information. We let our
eyes over wander through the materials and at last we find what we are looking for; a
date, a name or a less specific piece of information.
(v) Intensive: Intensive reading is reading shorter texts to extract specific information. This is an
accuracy activity involving reading for detail. The prescribed texts for all classes are intended for
intensive reading.
(v) Extensive: Extensive reading is reading longer texts for one’s own pleasure. This is a fluency
activity mainly involving global understanding. Reading of articles, novels, stories, poems etc are
considered as part of extensive reading.