1. CURRENT THEORIES ABOUT READING

2. Jean Piaget Lev Vygotsky

3.  How people think and understand
 Comes from Latin word cognitio-, from
conoscere which means „get to know‟
 Concerned with acquisition of knowledge
(Microsoft Encarta, 2009)

4. Researches conducted by
Jean Piaget and Lev
Vygostsky have shown
that language and
thought interact with
each other, and that
children go through five
stages of development.

5. Birth to 2 years old
The child:
 Explores the world through
his five senses
 Is initially not able to
represent things in his mind
 Develops object
permanence
 Learns by adaptation to
environment

6. The child:
 Is interested in picture books

7. 2 – 4 years old
The child:
 Explores the world around him
 Experiments with things in his environment
 Imitates adults in the use of things
 Develops animism
 Develops egocentricism

8. The child:
 Begins to develop
concepts and associate
words with pictures and
images

9.  Hisreading interest
involve a growing visual
discrimination of
objects and symbols

10. 4 – 7 years old
The child:
 Is introduced to
concepts of number,
weight, length and
height

11. The child:
 Enjoys listening to rhymes and
reading and reciting poems
 Develops reading readiness skills
 Can read simple words, phrases and
sentences (4-5 years old)
 Can read preprimers and basal
readers (6-7 years old)

12. 8 – 11 years old
The child:
 Is capable of thinking out
about actions previously
carried out only at a
sensorimotor level
 Develops logical reasoning
 Develops conservation

13. The child:
 Can do a lot of reading with meaning
 Can retell stories read
 Can pick out key words or topic sentences
that give the main idea

14. The child:
 Can note supporting details
 Can determine cause-effect relationships
 Can make inferences
There is a rapid growth in reading
and in use of reading tool.

15. 11-14 years old
The preteener:
 Is capable of dealing
with hypothesis and
propositions
 Develops abstraction

16.  The preteener: Can cope with higher level
critical reading skills: drawing conclusions,
making judgments, and evaluating plot and
style
 For bright pupils: Reading has become truly
analytic, interactive, constructive and
strategic
 Beginning of period of refinement and wide
reading

17. Rema Adrales
Alice Maninang
Antonio Delgado

18. Prepared by:
“Live to express, not to impress.”