English reading and comprehension

Abstract

This e-book is a proposal from the English Language subproject of the Institutional Teaching Initiation Grant Program (PIBID) of the State University of Piauí (UESPI), Poeta Torquato Neto campus, which has as its main objective to provide English reading instruction to high school students, specifically to third-year students. This material is divided into eleven units that present reading techniques and strategies as facilitators for reading and understanding texts in English, and was developed in a joint effort between the subproject's area coordinator (author) and the PIBID students (who collaborated with the collection of one text each - one of whom collaborated with the cover), in order to meet the needs of the tutoring of undergraduate students of the PIBID English Language Program at the Poeta Torquato Neto campus for the two third-year high school classes at the field school. The proposed reading techniques involve general comprehension, skimming, scanning, typography, prediction, how to use the dictionary, nominal groups, logical connectors, main points and detailed comprehension, selectivity, contextual reference and summary. By mastering these reading techniques and strategies, students will generally be able to further expand their knowledge and enhance their learning, which will greatly benefit their performance in English tests, especially the ENEM test. Each unit consists of information about the reading technique and/or strategy, followed by texts in English and text interpretation exercises. The texts were chosen to arouse students' attention in such a way that they feel curious and want to unravel them, since they are topics appropriate for the age group for which they are intended. It is also true to say that it is through constant reading practice aided by comprehension exercises that students will achieve excellence in reading skills. Finally, it is worth mentioning that this is a work for educational and didactic use, and is non-profit.