 To identify the aspects of reading

 Reading is reading itself

Why do we read?
 to be able to enhance your reading skill
 Develops the proper manor of reading
 Increase comprehension skill
 Develop the facility of knowledge
 Enrich your word power
Through reading you’ll be able to
learn the:
▪ Grammatical Structures- are the building blocks of
language.
▪ Correct pronunciation
 Physiology- the organic processes and
phenomena of an organism or any of its
parts or of a particular bodily process.
▪ organs are involved in reading
 E.g. eyes and mouth/tongue

*Reading is a physiological process as your brain

react to what is on the page.
JUMP
five times!
Fixation
• Eyes stopping or getting on the words/words
• The duration of fixation is the length of time the
eyes has to pose

Inter- Fixation
• Eyes moving from stopping point to
other
Return Sweeps

• Eyes swinging back from the end line to the beginning of the next line

Saccades
• Short quick hop and jump movements done especially by literate people
to move ahead on the line of print.

Regressions

• Backward right to left movement in case there is a need to double check what
is being read
 Eye
Optic nerves are the ones
perception who do the reading

Translates Absorbed
message by the brain

Relay
message
 The Communication Process

The goal of communication is to convey

information—and the understanding of
that information—from one person or
group to another person or group.
 oral and written

 The use of simple language

Example:
The girl threw the garbage yesterday.
http://science.blurtit.com/2000804/what-is-
reading-as-a-physiological-process

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC
2649675/