Visual Stimulus Comprehension

*Visuals can be a picteures on their own or combined with words to convey meaning.
*Symbols,signs,maps,diagrams and storyboards use visuals for a purpose.
*All visuals contain a message. The message could be interpreted as a story,a warning,an advertisement or as information to educate or influence people to buy something or to take some action.

1.Understanding Symbols and Signs

*Symbols are internationally recognised visuals with a clear message.
*They are understood by people everywhere, no matter what language they speak.

Look at these familiar symbols used at airports, on road signs, etc, and their meanings.

* signs use symbols, colours, words or numbers to convey a message,

* road signs can be a warning for driver safety (yellow signs),orders to be followed (red signs),or additional

information (green signs),

*A sign with a cross through it signifies something cannot be done.

look at these familiar signs and their meanings.

  

 

A.  What do these symbols mean? Write your answers on the lines provided.

means "Hospital"

means "Telephone "

means" No smoking"

the road is slippery

Keep Tidy inside

SPEED LIMIT 50

Handicapped Accessible

Traffic signals ahead

B.  In a sentence each, explain the message of these signs.  a sign warning about deer, a sign warning about flying reindeers, or a sign warning of scared ass deer’s due to hunting season?   a sign warning about the Road narrows on left ahead       A sign giving warning  of a hazard or danger.These signs must be a yellow triangle with a pictogram, as pictured

C. Draw symbols or sings to match the  messages for the signs.

Bicycles not allowed.

                                                                                                             

speed bump ahead

No campfires permitted.

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Read Comphrehension
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Reading Comprehension

If there were only one aspect of language that students could study (or that educators could teach), it would invariably be reading comprehension. Beloved reading comprehension, a friend to nearly every teacher of language. But what makes it so special? Why is it so revered by both students and teachers alike? To answer these questions, it helps to know just what reading comprehension is. Reading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text. Humans are thought to have a set reserve, an established threshold for attention and absorbtion of information, commonly referred to as processing capacity. This being the case, it is generally believed that proficient reading depends on the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. If word recognition is difficult, students use too much of their processing capacity to read individual words, which interferes with their ability to comprehend what is read. Many educators in the United States believe that students need to learn to analyze text (comprehend it) even before they can read it on their own, and comprehension instruction generally begins in pre-Kindergarten or Kindergarten. But other US educators consider this reading approach to be completely backward for very young children, arguing that the children must learn how to decode the words in a story through phonics before they can analyze the story itself. The reason why reading comprehension is such an effective learning tool is that, like art, it teaches students to manipulate particulars in attempt to represent the universal. When a student reads a text, he or she is forced to absorb a great deal of particular facts concerning an infinitude of seemingly random subjects (volcanoes, molecules, skateboarding, etc.) and assimilate them into the bigger picture, establishing just how they fit in, or relate, to the broader world. Mathematics, the diametrical opposite of art, challenges students in an inverse way; it teaches them to manipulate universals in order to represent the particular. No matter what the number "3" may come to stand for - volcanoes or molecules or skateboards - the student will be able to manipulate these things given his or her understanding of math. Based on this understanding, one might actually say that reading comprehension shares a unique association with art and math, each providing a way of understanding the world from a fundamental, yet polar, perspective.

Exercise Skimming
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Skimming

 skimming refers to the process of reading only main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of the content of a reading

selection.

How to Skim:

* Read the title.

* Read the introduction or the first paragraph.

* Read the first sentence of every other paragraph.

* Read any headings and sub-headings.

* Notice any pictures, charts, or graphs.

* Notice any italicized or boldface words or phrases.

* Read the summary or last paragraph.

Scanning is a reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information quickly. In scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a passage only to find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.