1. Rpublic of the Phillipines
BULACAN AGRICULTURAL STATE COLLEGE
Pinaod, San Ildefonso, Bulacan
Written Report
In
Eng. 135 Remedial Instruction in English
“Teaching Rate and Study Skills”
Dr. Alicia S.P. Gomez
Jessa L.Villanueva
BEEd II-A

2. Teaching Rate and Study Skills
Rate and Comprehension
Smith and Dechant explain the relationship between rate and comprehension in reading
as follows: To discuss the rate of reading adequately, it should be emphasized that it means rate
of comprehending printed or written material. Although comprehension remains of primary
importance and rate has no meaning apart from comprehension, rate of reading is worth
considering.
Roldan has classified reading rate or speed into three based on the reader’s purpose and
the difficulty of the material: study speed, average speed, and fast or selective speed.
1. Study Speed – it is the slowest reading speed and is used for material that requires
careful reading owing the reader’s purpose.
2. Average Speed – it is the one most often applied by adult readers. This rate would be
approximately 250 words per minute and it is normally used for easier textbooks, novels
newspaper and so on. It can be used for most prose material, whether factual descriptive
or narrative.
3. Fast or Selective Speed – this is actually method of reading selectively of reading only
those portion of the material that are necessary for the reader’s purpose reading
selectively is one of the most important skills of the mature. There are two types of
selective reading: skimming and scanning. Skimming is the fastest speed of reader
capable of. The reader skim-reads when he wishes to cover reading material in hurry or to
discern the writer’s core message. Scanning on the other hand is looking over the
material hastily in search of particular bits of information. The best example of scanning
is looking a telephone directory.

3. Activity 1 Word Recognition Skills
Direction: Quickly locate the word that is the same to the keyword. Write the letter of
the correct answer on your sheet.
A B C D
1. Match watch match mash much
2. Shall shell hall shall sham
3. Trash rash track trace trash
4. Wolf walk wolf woke wake
5. Robe robes rob robe road
6. Four fore four pour forty
7. Bud bed bud buddy bead
8. Corn corn core cork curb
9. Rite rate rote right rite
10. Ledge lodge lead letter ledge
11. Hammer hamper stammer hammer pound
12. Kitten mitten smitten bitten kitten
13. Adopt adopt adapt arrange adoption
14. Special special serial spender species
15. Polite policy politics polite bright

4. Study Skills and Library Skills
Teaching suggestion
Reading a Textbook
Title Page Gives the title, author and publisher.
Copyright Page Gives the date publication.
Table of Contents Lists chapter titles and page number for the main ideas that
covered in the book.
Index Lists the alphabetically the subjects and the pages numbers
On which the subject are discussed.
Reading Reference Material
Encyclopedia - is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information
from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge.
Thesaurus - is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of
meaning (containing synonyms and sometimes antonyms), in contrast to a dictionary, which
contains definitions and pronunciations.
Biographical Reference – this were you can find the biography of the famous people.
Entertainers * Politician
Scientist * Sportspeople
Writers

5. Atlases - A book or bound collection of maps, sometimes with supplementary illustrations and
graphic analyses.
Almanacs - is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts,
farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and tabular information in a particular field or fields often
arranged according to the calendar
Dictionary - is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed
alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and
other information.
Source: Teaching Reading in the Elementary Grades
Erlinda G. Tajero
Gerry C. Catchillar
(Coordinator)
Published by National Bookstore
Copyright 2004

6. Activity2 Vocabulary Words
TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria
I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight
Haunts a re-entangled trail,
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
I shall come to you again
With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.
Answer this vocabulary words:
1. to visit often
2. the period between sunset and dark
3. to twist together
4. to proceed slowly
5. A ghost
6. Darker stage of twilight
7. To alarm
8. The light from star