Significance of ReadingEdu – Developmental Reading I

Maranatha Estrada - Vargas

Let’s put our tongues to work…

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

Let’s put our tongues to work…

A twister of twists once twisted a twist;A twist that he twisted was a three-twisted twist;If in twisting a twist one twist should untwist,The untwisted twist would untwist the twist.

• Dr. Johnson and Mr. Johnson,After great consideration,Came to the conclusionThat the Indian nationBeyond the Indian OceanIs back in educationBecause the chief occupation is cultivation.

What is READING?

• Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to construct or derive meaning. It is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas.

Race to Paragraph.

• Team A • Team B

THE MORE YOU READ…

So do we really agree that READING is important?

To do:

• Form 3 groups.• Read the article given for 3-5 minutes.

READING expands our VOCABULARY.(Merriam-Webster)

IndulgeIt is advisable to indulge in at least half an hour of reading a day to keep abreast of the various styles of writing and new vocabulary.

To allow (yourself) to have or do something as a special pleasure;

AbreastIt is advisable to indulge in at least half an hour of reading a day to keep abreast of the various styles of writing and new vocabulary.

Up to a particular standard or level especially of knowledge of recent developments;

READING expands our VOCABULARY.Inculcate

It is recommended that parents inculcate the importance of reading to their children in the early years.

To cause (something) to be learned by (someone) by repeating it again and again;

VariancesThe children who start reading from an early stage are observed to have good language skills, and they grasp the variances in phonics much better.

An amount of difference or change;

chocolate. “CHOK lit” or “CHOK uh lit” (not “CHO kuh leit”). A food prepared from ground roasted cacao beans.

READING expands our VOCABULARY.Decipher

The habit of reading also helps readers to decipher new words and phrases that they came across in everyday conversations.

To find the meaning of (something that is difficult to read or understand);

FacetsUltimately it is to understand life with its thousand facets and to learn how to live life. A part or element of

something;

READING expands our VOCABULARY.Ruts

But books give us the experiences and thoughts of innumerable others, often the wisest of their generation, and lift us out of our narrow ruts.

A usual or fixed practice; a monotonous routine

OverwhelmedWe are not overwhelmed by out petty and often transient loves and hates, and we see them for what they are – petty and hardly noticeable ripples on the immense ocean of life.

To affect (someone) very strongly;

READING expands our VOCABULARY.immense

We are not overwhelmed by out petty and often transient loves and hates, and we see them for what they are – petty and hardly noticeable ripples on the immense ocean of life.

Very great in size or amount;

vistasGradually as we go up the mountainsides, fresh vistas come into view, our vision extends further and further, and a sense of proportion comes to us.

A large and beautiful view of an area of land or water; A large number of things that may be possible in the future;

READING expands our VOCABULARY.clumsy

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands.

Moving or doing things in a very awkward way and tending to drop or break things;

Fragile creatures A book is a fragile creature, it suffers

the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands.

Fragile: easily broken or damaged, very delicate; not strong

Creature: something created either animate or inanimate

READING expands our VOCABULARY.oblivion

So, the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

The state of being destroyed; The state of something that is not remembered, used, or thought about any more;

The Importance of Reading

• Damian Sofsian a. There were no television or computers reading was a primary leisure activityb. It is observed that children and teenagers who love reading have comparatively higher Iqsc. Reading helps in mental development and is known to stimulate the muscles of the eyes.

Importance of Reading

• Ruchi Sapraa. The librarian protects the

books not only against mankind but against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

b. Our present knowledge is all just because of our books

c. READING is the best thing to make your mind relax

Why should we read?

• Jawaharlal Nehrua. Our individual experiences

are so narrow and limited, if we were to rely on them alone, we would also remain narrow and limited.

b. The Books give us the experiences and thoughts of innumerable others.

c. Humanity and playing a brave part in life’s journey.

IN SUMMARYA hundred to a thousand lives? Why not?

FAST FACTS YOU GET FROM BOOKS

Ramayana: • Summary• The Ramayana is one of the two great Indian epics,the other being the Mahabharata. The Ramayana tells about life in India around 1000 BCE and offers

models in dharma. The hero, Rama, lived his whole life by the rules of dharma; in fact, that was why Indian consider him heroic. When Rama was a young boy, he was the perfect son. Later he was an ideal husband to his faithful wife, Sita, and a responsible ruler of Aydohya. "Be as Rama," young Indians have been taught for 2,000 years; "Be as Sita."

• The original Ramayana was a 24,000 couplet-long epic poem attributed to the Sanskrit poet Valmiki. Oral versions of Rama's story circulated for centuries, and the epic was probably first written down sometime around the start of the Common Era. It has since been told, retold, translated and transcreated throughout South and Southeast Asia, and the Ramayana continues to be performed in dance, drama, puppet shows, songs and movies all across Asia.

• From childhood most Indians learn the characters and incidents of these epics and they furnish the ideals and wisdom of common life. The epics help to bind together the many peoples of India, transcending caste, distance and language. Two all-Indian holidays celebrate events in the Ramayana. Dussehra, a fourteen-day festival in October, commemorates the siege of Lanka and Rama's victory over Ravana, the demon king of Lanka. Divali, the October-November festival of Lights, celebrates Rama and Sita's return home to their kingdom of Ayodhya

• Prince Rama was the eldest of four sons and was to become king when his father retired from ruling. His stepmother, however, wanted to see her son Bharata, Rama's younger brother, become king. Remembering that the king had once promised to grant her any two wishes she desired, she demanded that Rama be banished and Bharata be crowned. The king had to keep his word to his wife and ordered Rama's banishment. Rama accepted the decree unquestioningly. "I gladly obey father's command," he said to his stepmother. "Why, I would go even if you ordered it."

• When Sita, Rama's wife, heard Rama was to be banished, she begged to accompany him to his forest retreat. "As shadow to substance, so wife to husband," she reminded Rama. "Is not the wife's dharma to be at her husband's side? Let me walk ahead of you so that I may smooth the path for your feet," she pleaded. Rama agreed, and Rama, Sita and his brother Lakshmana all went to the forest.

• When Bharata learned what his mother had done, he sought Rama in the forest. "The eldest must rule," he reminded Rama. "Please come back and claim your rightful place as king." Rama refused to go against his father's command, so Bharata took his brother's sandals and said, "I shall place these sandals on the throne as symbols of your authority. I shall rule only as regent in your place, and each day I shall put my offerings at the feet of my Lord. When the fourteen years of banishment are over, I shall joyously return the kingdom to you." Rama was very impressed with Bharata's selflessness. As Bharata left, Rama said to him, "I should have known that you would renounce gladly what most men work lifetimes to learn to give up."

• Later in the story, Ravana, the evil King of Lanka, (what is probably present-day Sri Lanka) abducted Sita. Rama mustered the aid of a money army, built a causeway across to Lanka, released Sita and brought her safely back to Aydohya. In order to set a good example, however, Rama demanded that Sita prove her purity before he could take her back as his wife. Rama, Sita and Bharata are all examples of persons following their dharma.

• This lesson focuses on how the Ramayana teaches Indians to perform their dharma. Encourage students to pick out examples of characters in the epic who were faithful to their dharma and those who violated their dharma. Mahatma Gandhi dreamed that one day modern India would become a Ram-rajya.

• In Hinduism, dharma is the religious and moral law governing individual conduct and is one of the four ends of life.

The earliest recorded use of 'wicked' to mean 'cool, good' is from F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise. The source for this is the Oxford English Dictionary, but of course there may be an earlier instance of the word which is yet to be discovered. Fitzgerald's first novel also provides us with the first known uses of the words 'T-shirt' and 'daiquiri’ - type of alcoholic drink, 1920 (first recorded in F. Scott Fitzgerald), from Daiquiri, name of a district or village in eastern Cuba.

The original title of Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman.

Ray Bradbury and his publishers thought The Fireman was a boring title, so they called a local fire station and asked what temperature paper burned at. The firemen put Bradbury on hold while they burned a book, then reported back the temperature, and the rest is history.

Ray Bradbury

• Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) was the author of more than three dozen books, including Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, as well as hundreds of short stories. He wrote for the theater, cinema, and TV, including the screenplay for John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Emmy Award–winning teleplay The Halloween Tree, and adapted for television sixty-five of his stories for The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and numerous other honors.

To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee’s only novel, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize

and spent 88 weeks on the best seller list.

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