Developing reading and writing skills with reference to „Generation 2000” textbook

The complexity of the reading process which demands the knowledge of many related world recognition and comprehension skills is revealed in chapter I. The first part of the chapter focuses on the relationship between reading and spoken language and on the role of the teacher in the beginning stages of reading. As the second part of the first chapter shows the teacher should help pupils to acquire reading skills by developing the ability to: discriminate between letters of the alphabet; to recognize, say, and read initial, intervocalic, and final consonants, consonant clusters and silent letters; to blend one word in an utterance into the next one in thought groups; to recognize structural clues; to recognize words that form part of their vocabulary; to interpret the meanings of unfamiliar words which they meet in their reading and to increase comprehension. The third part of the chapter presents the stages in reading which give pupils competency in reading for comprehension and suggests the methodology of conducting both the intensive and extensive reading lessons.