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LEARNING
KIT
Bachelor of Elementary
Education
1st Semester 2021-2022

Prelim
Module 1
Developmental Reading 1
August 2021
 Week 1
Lesson 1

At the end of this lessons, the students must be able to:

 Improved impression about reading.
 Ability to discuss reading in positive ways.
 Acquired motivation to improve reading skills.

Lesson 1- A Preview on Reading

Let’s prepare for learning

How does reading as a personal activity impress you?

-Have you stopped to reflect on the importance of reading, an activity which you have been
doing since your elementary grades until your college life today?
-Do you think of it as simply as a tool for studies?
-Perhaps you think that reading is just a difficult thing to do?
-Is it okay to set aside the importance of reading?
-Do you prefer to give time more on leisure things e.g. playing games online, watching movies/
kdrama, listening to music etc.?

Let’s learn from the great minds

Here are some thoughts on Reading from the great people with the great minds;
(Great people with the great minds are those people who are very smart and genius in all fields.)

 Caroll Gray “Reading early in life gives a youngster a multitude of friends to guide
intellectual and emotional growth’
(The author believe that when a child learn to love reading at the very young age through
the guidance of parents and the environment that child will grow intelligently and he/she
will be surrounded by friends with the same passion in reading.)
 Richard Sleete “Reading is to the mind what exercises is to the body”
(The author believe that reading ability is already in our heads, and we need to activate
this reading ability within ourselves)
 Chinese Proverb “After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless”
(The author believe that if we forget the importance of reading our communication skills
might get affective in negative ways and we might forget the basic skills in reading and
communications)
 Frederick Douglass “Once you learn to read you will be forever free”
(The author believe that reading skills is very important in the lives of the people, if you
are literate in reading no one can go easily and take advantage on you.
 Issaac d’isrelli “The delights of reading imparts the vivacity of the youth even in old
age”
(The author believe that being in love in reading brings joy to the young generation and
even those old ones who loves reading during their young age.)
 Francis Bacon “Reading maketh a full man.”
(Perhaps the author believe that being in love in reading can gives man/human so much
joy and happiness)
 Elizabeth Hardwick “The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it
excites, and it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a
moral illumination.”
(The author believe that being in love in reading is the greatest gift for human kind,
reading is a free skill, through reading man can find peace, through reading man might
experience excitements and through reading man can survive in this world because
knowledge is mark on his/her mind. Most importantly reading brings light to the life of
human because he/she is able to understand different situations in life.

Books which contain reading materials:

 A book is a garden carried in a pocket –Chinese Proverb
 A man without books is as a body without soul- Cicero
 The book is man’s best invention so far- Carolina Maria de Jesus
 I have sought rest everywhere, and only found it in corners, and books.
- Thomas a Kempis
 You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them
- Ray Bradbury
 Books we must have though we lack bread- Alice Williams Brotherston
 Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations
-Henry David Thoreau

Activity 1
Learning from the famous men and women, you may answer the following
questions. Check your answers and explain orally your choice.

Yes No
1. Reading is a burden in work and life
2. Personally, it has not been useful in your
studies.
3. For men and women of great minds, they are
avoided and set aside.
4. They also do not find books as sources of rest
and enjoyment.
5. The library is not a wholesome place to stay
and spend time in.
 Reflection
In general, do great men and women find reading helpful, wholesome and a
helpmate in life?

Activity 2
Through informal sharing of opinion, give brief reasons why:
1. Reading books can be your friend.
2. Reading exercises the mind.
3. You can have more topics/facts for conversation after reading.
4. Books sparked people’s freedom movements.
5. Reading can foster a rich and fulfilling life.
6. Libraries contain wealth.
7. A book is like a garden.
8. Churches burn heretical books; states censor radical books.
9. Books are one of man’s greatest inventions.
10. You should bring a book during long travel.

Activity 3
Create two separate web graphs/figures to show the benefits provided by (a)
reading and (b) books.

Assignment
Write a resolution (something you wish to do) drawn from your recent discovery
about reading and books.
 Week 1
Lesson 2

At the end of this lesson, the students must be able to:

 Acquired appreciation of the wondrous origin of reading.
 Ability to highlight the epic periods that gave us reading today.
 Experience the broader aspect of reading body language.
Lesson 2- The History of Reading
Let’s prepare to learn
“Books are the carrier’s civilization. Without books history is silent, literature dumb,
science crippled.” – Barbara Trishman

Let’s look at the distant past

Paleontologists who study fossils and other evidences of life

on earth, the first man was a latecomer on earth and appeared on the
planet only about one hundred thousand years ago. Those primitive days,
man walked upright, had adaptable hands and a brain which enabled him to
devise ways to show superior strength and cunning. And as he lived in
communities, he was a social being who communicate with his kind.

In the beginning, however, he employed grunts and body

language using gestures and postures to convey his ideas and needs to
others. Slowly, he developed oral language which enabled him to express
more clearly the messages he wanted to convey. In time, various
circumstances such as the need to communicate to others who are distant
in place caused man to devised symbols corresponding to his oral
messages.
 These are the evidence from the earliest human act of picture- writing and reading.
(Old Stone Age rock painting and cuneiform tablet or picture- writing)
 Week 1
Lesson 3

At the end of this lesson, the students must be able to:

 Acquaintance with reading in terms of its physiology or internal process in the human
organism
 Retention of scientific terms related to the physiology of reading
 Appreciation of the wondrous process of reading.

Lesson – 3 Reading as a Physiological Process

Let’s prepare to learn
How you ever wondered about the process on how reading is done by man?
How come reading triggers different reactions on the human organism?
How can we avoid straining ourselves when reading?
Let’s the facts
Here are known facts about reading:
 Week 1
Lesson 4

At the end of this lesson, the students must be able to:

 Appreciate the wondrous work of the mind in reading

 Understand the steps in reading comprehension
 Familiarity with the levels of reading comprehension

Lesson 4 – Reading as a Cognitive Process

Let’s prepare to learn