JEFFREY DIMAILIG

BEED III
DEVELOPMENTAL READING
REPORT

READING AS A
PHYSIOLOGICAL
PROCESS

READING
Skill
Tool
Process
Reading

is a innovated, was changed

during Egyptians period

PHYSIOLOGICAL

It pertains to a physical changes in the

human body, like the gross and find motor
skills

PROCESS
Procedure
Pattern
Organize
In order
Systematically arrange

QUESTION: WHAT IS A READING

AS A PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS?
There is a series of steps in terms of
physical development in perceiving:
letters
characters
and symbols

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Acquaintance with reading in terms of its
physiological or internal process in the
human organism
Retention of scientific terms related to the
physiological of reading
Appreciation of the wondrous process of
reading

LETS LEARN FACTS

1.Reading involves both an organic or
physiological process and a mental or
cognitive processes. But it is difficult to
put a demarcation line between these two
processes as they overlap since the mind
controls all human activities. Thus some
reading experts simply refer to this
process as being neuro-physiological in
nature.

2. In the physiological process, the most

basic step is for the eyes to see:
Identify
Recognize the printed word or
Images (e.g. illustration, diagram, picture)
3. The light patterns from the printed
symbols hit the foveal areas or closely
packed sensory cells of the retina.
4. In turn, this induces chemical changes
that create patterns of nerve currents into
the optic nerve fiber.

5. Then these currents travel to a center in the

mid-brain.
6. The stage of reading revolves around the
ability to identify and recognize words which
are the smallest unit of visual identification and
meaningful recognition but the act of reading
does not take place if the letters are perceived
in isolation.
7. Finally, using the currents that travel to the
mid-brain the cerebral cortex interprets the
symbols.
8. Studies show eye movement in reading with
the eye perceiving and pausing on the printed
material horizontally from left to right and topto-bottom and right to left and bottom-to-top.

Instruction: LEFT TO RIGHT AND

TOP-TO-BOTTOM READING
Some students are not attending their
class because of their personal reasons
but sometimes some teachers did not
understand us..but if the teachers are
not attending their classes, the students
have no power to say anything to them.
Mr. War-ren
U.P. DILIMAN

Instruction: RIGHT TO LEFT AND

BOTTOM-TO-TOP READING
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limits are there because experience direct
by and examples by learn We GLADWELL
MALCON

9. There are several eye movement:

a.

b.

c.

d.

e.

Fixation or the eyes stopping or getting fixated

on the word or words
Inter-fixation or the eyes moving from
stopping point to the other (horizontally from left
to right, up coming down under)
Return sweeps with the eyes swinging back
from the end line to the beginning of the next
line.
Short quick hop and jump movements called
saccades
Regressions or backward right-to-left
movement in case there is a need to double
check what is being read.

f. Span of recognition or the eyes

recognition of a group of words. It is
believed that readers can add to their
reading ability by widening the span of
recognition by means of chunking of
phrases, a focus on the total word
pattern. As the span widens, fixation
decreases resulting in increased speed in
reading.

ACTIVITY:
1. Is a reading is a wonderful human
activity?
2. Is physical seeing much like a
photographic/camera picture taking?
3. What causes eye strain?
4. Prepare a chart illustrating the
physiological process
5. Prepare a drawing of an ideal home study
room.