Reading strategies
Reading strategies
Lesson duration is: 45 minItems in this lesson
Reading strategies
Lesson goals
After the lesson, you will know why we practise reading.
After the lesson, you know when to use which reading strategy.
After the lesson, you can use scanning to find specific information in a text
After the lesson, you can use context clues to determine the meaning of different words
why practice reading?
Why practice reading?
Find useful information online
Learn about different topics
Improves vocabulary
Learn new sentence-structure
Reading strategies
Skimming (aim = general idea of text)
Scanning (aim = finding specific information)
Using context (aim = reading to deduce meaning)
Skimming
Read the title and subheadings
Read the introduction and conclusion
Read the first and last sentence of every paragraph
Use when you need the main idea of the text
Scanning
Looking for specific information
Look for a name, date, word
Scanning practice - word race
The next slide has text
I will give a word
Scan for that word
If you have found it raise your hand
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Using context
How do you know what a word means without looking it up?
It can be explained further on in the sentence (definition)
Word part - do you know parts of the word?
Ther might be examples or pictures
What does re-examine mean?
What does irregular mean?
Prudent: She was prudent with the guest list, acting with great caution and care to only invite those she likes.
Procrastinating: He was procrastinating all day, playing video games and watching tv instead of doing homework.
Superfluous: Adding smarties to the M&M brownies was superfluous, extra and unnecessary.
Haughty: She is so humble and modest, she could never be called haughty.
Extra practice
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/reading-exams/reading-tasks