Tutorial week 41. the use of wh-question to help develop the skills of skimming and scanning among the students in the primary school.2. prepare a suitable activity to develop reading comprehension skills among primary school pupils.

By:Farhana Zawawi

Nur Raihana Binti Abdul Ghani

Question one

• The use of wh- questions to help develop the skills of skimming and scanning among the student in primary school.

WH- question

• There are eight wh-questions, which, what, who, whom, whose, when, where and why and to this list we usually add how as they are all used to elicit particular kinds of information.

Skimming

• We can use wh- question to help student to get an overall picture about the text.

• Alert student about the purpose of certain type of text.

• Eg : - What is the text about?- What is the purpose of this type of text? (i.e. to provide information, to recount an

event, to explain).

Scanning

• It can develop your student ability to locate specific information in a text.- eg: How many cars are there?

• It can improve your student understanding of main details, usually factual information.- eg: which one is Halim favourite food?

• Sentence completion require your students to fill in a gap with up to three words and/ or a number from passage. Student have to scanning reading passage to find the words.- eg: Question :Where did Siti go after recess?Answer : After recess, __________.

Question two

• Prepare a suitable activity to develop reading comprehension skills among primary school pupils.

Activity 1

• Water Pollution • Ask students to read the text and give

worksheet for the students to work on.• The activities in the worksheet contain cause

and effect skills, making inference skills, and evaluating reading comprehension skills.

Activity 2

• Cinderella Story• In groups, students are given a story which have

been chopped up.• Each paper contain certain paragraph from a story.• Students have to reassemble the story using

prediction skills and sequencing skills. • Then, using their new and prior knowledge, create

their own version of Cinderella Story. (synthesizing skills)