(Central Board Of Secondary Education)

Promoting Reading Habits as part of CCE in English Language

Reading any text should be done with the purpose of:-

1. reading silently at varying speeds depending on the purpose of reading:
2. adopting different strategies for different types of texts, both literary and non-literary:
3. recognising the organisation of a text:
4. identifying the main points of a text;
5. understanding relations between different parts of a text through lexical and grammatical cohesion devices.
6. anticipating and predicting what will come next.
7. deducing the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items in a given con text:
8. consulting a dictionary to obtain information on the meaning and use of lexical items:
9. analysing, interpreting, inferring (and evaluating) the ideas in the text:
10. selecting and extracting from text information required for a specific purpose.
11. retrieving and synthesising information from a range of reference material using study skills such as skimming and scanning:
12. interpreting texts by relating them to other material on the same theme (and to their own experience and knowledge): and
13. reading extensively on their own for pleasure.

Reading Project in schools:

1. The CBSE is planning to introduce a Reading Project for upper Primary and Secondary classes. The list of books recommended for the Project is enclosed at Annexure I.

2. Schools may choose to use some of these books or others of their own choice.
3. Schools can vary the level but at least one book per term is to be read by every child.

4 Teachers may opt for:-

• One book
• Books by one author; or
• Books of one genre; to be read by the whole class.

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