Literature

• Reading Approach: 


  • Aims to solve students' reading problems
  • Read more to improve their knowledge and get new ideas: (1) know about the different of culture by reading across cultural understanding
  • Learn how to pronounce the words correctly
• Reading Approach:

  • Inferencing, guessing, and predicting are important skills developed in reading
• Skimming


  1. General or main ideas

  2. The goal is to read shorter texts to extract accurate detailed information

  3. Skimming is done at a speed three to four times faster than regular reading

  4. Useful when reading for comprehension
• Skimming


  • Quickly reading a text to get the summary of it
  • Used in searching for keywords or ideas
  • Find answers to questions
• Scanning


  Quickly to find specific information
• Extensive reading


  • An approach to language learning in which long text and a large amount of material are read by the for general understanding
  • Reading of a number of books on a similar concept or subject
  • For acquiring information or for pleasure
• Intensive reading


  • For understanding the literal meaning of the text
  • Developing reading skills, vocabulary and grammatical knowledge
• Graphic Fiction


  A comic book narrative that is equivalent in form and dimension to the prose novel. The pictures are arranged in sequenced image panels and dialogues are written in speech bubbles. The illustrations allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in the story.
• Extensive Reading


  Casual reading performed for pleasure or gaining general understanding on a topic
• Graphic Fiction


  • Autographic forms are the marks of author's handwriting which creates an impact that the whole novel is a manuscript and thus provides a sense of intimacy
  • Graphic novels encourage interactivity in the minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks image panels
  • Filling in the blanks between image panels makes the reader imagine the actions portrayed in the story
  • The language, syntax, and meaning of a graphic novel spring primarily through the relationship between images than words
• Intensive Reading


  The reading method which requires intimate study of a text with the objective of getting its literary or linguistic meaning
• Graphic Fiction/Graphic Novel


  • "IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS: 9/11" by Art Spielgelman
  • "THE BARN OWL'S WONDROUS CAPERS" by Sarnath Banerjee
  • "LOUIS RIEL" by Chester Brown
• Flash Fiction


  Imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from a word to a thousand.
• Flash Fiction


  • Brevity. Flash fiction presents the story with fewest words as possible
  • Complete plot. Flash fiction emphasizes the development of plot. It has a beginning, middle, and ending of the story
  • Surprising ending. The successful hallmark of a flash fiction is its twist at the end of the story
• Flash Fiction


  • "ANGELS AND BLUEBERRIES" by Tara Campbell
  • "TAYLOR SWIFT" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
  • "UNNECESSARY THINGS" by Tatyana Tolstaya
• Graphic Fiction


  A comic book narrative that is equivalent in form and dimension to the prose novel. The pictures are arranged in sequenced image panels and dialogues are written in speech bubbles. The illustrations allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in the story.
• Graphic Fiction


  • Autographic forms are the marks of author's handwriting which creates an impact that the whole novel is a manuscript and thus provides a sense of intimacy
  • Graphic novels encourage interactivity in the minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks image panels
  • Filling in the blanks between image panels makes the reader imagine the actions portrayed in the story
  • The language, syntax, and meaning of a graphic novel spring primarily through the relationship between images than words
• Graphic Fiction/Graphic Novel


  • "IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS: 9/11" by Art Spielgelman
  • "THE BARN OWL'S WONDROUS CAPERS" by Sarnath Banerjee
  • "LOUIS RIEL" by Chester Brown
• Flash Fiction


  Imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from a word to a thousand.
• Flash Fiction


  • Brevity. Flash fiction presents the story with fewest words as possible
  • Complete plot. Flash fiction emphasizes the development of plot. It has a beginning, middle, and ending of the story
  • Surprising ending. The successful hallmark of a flash fiction is its twist at the end of the story
• Flash Fiction


  • "ANGELS AND BLUEBERRIES" by Tara Campbell
  • "TAYLOR SWIFT" by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
  • "UNNECESSARY THINGS" by Tatyana Tolstaya