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Essay On Reading Comprehension Skills

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Being able to read and having the ability to comprehend information is one of the most important elements in learning language and literature. Since the 1960’s Theodor Seuss Geisel has been teaching native English speaking children how to read and learn how to grasp English in early childhood. This paper looks at how this acclaimed author can be used not just to teach native languages but that ‘the Doctor’ have the same ability to captivate and teach English as it does with native English speaking children of all ages to Thai children of the same age group.
Keywords: Seuss, reading comprehension, phonetics, English, Thailand

Developing Reading Comprehension Skills in Young
Primary Students using Dr. Seuss
Whether it is a story, a contract, …show more content…

The ability of a reader to be able to put the symbols (text) into a known pattern (words), combine the words into a structured group of words (sentence) and be able to understand the correct context from meaning. There are many examples of a person being able to read the letters and still not be able to formulate the words. Most speed typists can type a perfect document with little difficulty and no errors but have no idea what they typed as far as content. For the reader this means being able to use their “cognitive capacities (e.g. attention, memory, critical analytic ability, inference, visualization ability)” (Snow, 2002, p.13). There must also be a necessity for the reader to read the information (a menu in a restaurant or a legal contract or assembly instructions) as well as “various types of knowledge (vocabulary, domain and topic knowledge, linguistic and discourse he knowledge, knowledge or specific comprehension strategies)” (Snow, 2002, p.13). These are all acquired starting at an early age and are achieved by learning how to decode and read starting with sounds and then moving to words and then sentences in a basic format which allows the new reader to be able to build as the learn and grow with each story they

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