PROBLEM OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING ABILITIES AND SKILLS OF THE PUPILS OF THE 5TH-6TH GRADES AT THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE LESSONS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
Published 2016-12-30
Keywords
- abilities,
- skills,
- reading skills and abilities,
- types of skills,
- measuring of reading abilities
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Abstract
The article specifies the content of abilities and skills, reading, in particular, accepted in didactics, psychology, psycholinguistics and linguistic didactics. The types of skills and their classification have been examined. It was found that reading skills as one of the types of speech are simultaneously objective (special) and also providing general education because of their connection with student achievement in all academic subjects as students must read during all classes. The article presents the classification of reading skills. It was determined what the practical reading skills and intellectual skills are necessary to build and measure as regards pupils of 5-6 classes at lessons of the Ukrainian language. The author of the article has referred to practice reading skills such items as: quick navigation through the content of published sources (easily and quickly find the content of the desired section, paragraph, topic, ability to use symbols, notes, footnotes, to find and understand information are presented by means of different fonts) and reading technique as well. Such issues has been singled out among intellectual skills as: the ability to quickly review the text and recognize separate elements by dint of external and notional features, ability to understand the actual meaning of the text, establish cause-effect relationships, to detect keywords in the text, to identify structural features of the text, to determine the interdependent notional parts, to understand the semantic relations between sentences, paragraphs, sub, micro topics, notice incomprehensible words, to find out their meaning, to formulate questions as per reading content, to divine the content of the following words are not read yet, as well sentences and group of sentences, to highlight the primary and secondary in the text, to correlate what is read with the information put down in illustrative material, to understand different types of information submission.