Module 6
Comprehensive
Reading
Dr. Atul Aman
SASL, VIT Bhopal
Outline
• Reading: Anticipation and Prediction
• Using reference to facilitate reading skills
• Analytical reading: Drawing inferences and
theme/topic identification
• Comparing text: Types of texts and their
academic functions
• Read out loud: Read for audience
• Vocabulary and Word Analogy
Reading: Anticipation and
Prediction
• An anticipation guide is a comprehension strategy
that is used before reading to activate students'
prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new
topic.
• Prediction strategy involves the ability of readers
to get meaning from a text by making informed
predictions. Good readers use predicting as a way to
connect their existing knowledge to new information
from a text to get meaning from what they read.
Comprehensive Reading
• Q: Write the inference of the paragraph in one sentence. Also
write the theme and four keywords. Provide a relevant title to
the passage:
• Anger against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s
handling of a deepening economic crisis in the island nation
of 22 million people spiraled into violence late on Thursday,
as hundreds of protesters clashed with police for several
hours. A severe shortage of foreign currency has left
Rajapaksa’s government unable to pay for essential imports,
including fuel, leading to debilitating power cuts lasting up to
13 hours. Ordinary Sri Lankans are also dealing with
shortages and soaring inflation, after the country steeply
devalued its currency last month ahead of talks with the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan programme.
• Inference in one sentence:
The outrage against the deepening financial crisis, that
left ordinary people in want of basic necessities, has
turned violent in Sri Lanka.
• Theme:
The economic crisis and the public outrage.
• Keywords:
Sri Lanka, economic crisis, violence, essential services,
• Title:
The Economic downfall: Crisis in Island Nation
Q: Write the inference of the paragraph in one
sentence. Also write the theme and four keywords.
Provide a relevant title to the passage:
• Back in the early 2000s, an awesome thing happened in
the New X-Men comics. Our mutant heroes had been
battling giant robots called Sentinels for years, but
suddenly these mechanical overlords spawned a new
threat: Nano-Sentinels! Not content to rule Earth with
their metal fists, these tiny robots invaded our bodies
at the microscopic level. Infected humans were slowly
converted into machines, cell by cell.
• Inference in one sentence:
The early 2000s saw the arrival of tiny robots called
Nano-Sentinels in X-Men comics which Infected human
bodies and converted them into machines.
• Theme:
The arrival of Nano-Sentinels, the tiny robots in X-Men
comics.
• Keywords:
X-Men comics, Sentinels, Nano-Sentinels, Humans.
• Title:
Senitels, Nano-Sentinels and the X-Men comics.
Q: Write the inference of the paragraph in one
sentence. Also write the theme and four keywords.
Provide a relevant title to the passage:
• Today we can hardly conceive of ourselves without an
unconscious. Yet between 1700 and 1900, this notion
developed as a genuinely original thought. The
"unconscious" burst the shell of conventional language,
coined as it had been to embody the fleeting ideas and
the shifting conceptions of several generations until,
finally, it became fixed and defined in specialized terms
within the realm of medical psychology and Freudian
psychoanalysis.
• Inference in one sentence:
The idea of “unconscious”, as it is understood today in
medical psychology and Freudian psychoanalysis developed
between 1700 and 1900.
• Theme:
Human beings and the development of the idea of
unconscious.
• Keywords:
Unconscious, Medical psychology, Freudian psychoanalysis,
Language.
• Title:
The idea of ‘unconscious’ in Human Language.
Q: Write the inference of the paragraph in
one sentence. Also write the theme and four
keywords. Provide a relevant title to the
passage:
• The word ‘anarchy’ comes from the Greek anarkhia,
meaning contrary to authority or without a ruler, and
was used in a derogatory sense until 1840, when it was
adopted by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon to describe his
political and social ideology. Proudhon argued that
organization without government was both possible
and desirable. In the evolution of political ideas,
anarchism can be seen as an ultimate projection of
both liberalism and socialism, and the differing strands
of anarchist thought can be related to their emphasis
on one or the other of these.
• Inference in one line:
The word ‘anarchy’,used by Proudhon describe his
political and social ideology in 1840, in evolutionary
politics can be seen as one extension of one or more
aspects of liberalism and socialism.
• Theme:
The evolution of the word ‘anarchy’.
• Keywords:
Anarchy, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Political ideology,
Social ideology.
• Title:
Anarchy and the evolutionary politics.
Q: Write the inference of the paragraph in
one sentence. Also write the theme and four
keywords. Provide a relevant title to the
passage:
• The sleights of hand that conflate consumption with
virtue are a central theme in A Thirst for Empire, a
sweeping and richly detailed history of tea by the
historian Erika Rappaport. How did tea evolve from an
obscure "China drink" to a universal beverage imbued
with civilizing properties? The answer, in brief,
revolves around this conflation, not only by profit-
motivated marketers but by a wide variety of interest
groups. While abundant historical records have allowed
the study of how tea itself moved from east to west,
Rappaport is focused on the movement of the idea of
tea to suit particular purposes.
• Inference in one line:
• A Thirst for Empire by Erika Rappaport talks about the
art of tea makers in making tea a universal drink from a
regional beverage and this aspect makes her book
unique from the other books on the subject.
• Theme:
• The voyage of tea from a regional beverage to a
universal drink.
• Keywords:
• Tea, A Thirst for Empire, consumption, virtue.
• Title:
• The Tea tale: From regional to universal.
Factual Texts
• Endeavour to inform, instruct, or persuade
through the use of facts and information.
Types:
• Discussion texts
• Explanatory texts
• Instructional / procedural texts
• Persuasion texts / opinion writing
• Non-chronological reports
LITERARY TEXTS
• Seek to entertain, enlighten, or elicit emotion
through a creative use of language and
structure.
Types:
• Poetry
• Narrative
• Drama
Thank you !!