Reading strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 3

A lesson about reading strategies

Lesson goal

• You will find out how you can use the reading strategies 
• You will learn how to apply the reading strategies to the text you are going to read.

Which of the following answers is a reading strategy?

1. Dropping
2. Scanning
3. Skimming
4. Roaming

Which strategy do you use when you read the complete text because you think it is very interesting?

1. Intensive reading
2. Skimming
3. Scanning

Which strategy do you use when you are looking for specific information?

1. Intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Which reading strategy will help you to read the text quickly to create better understanding of what you read?

1. intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Which strategy will help you to find out what the most important information of the paragraph is?

1. intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Skimming is

1. Reading titles, headers, subheaders
2. look for specific information
3. Read the first (last) sentence of the paragraph
4. read intensively

Scanning is...

1. detailed reading
2. looking for italised and bold words
3. reading the summary
4. Looking for specific information

Time to go to work

• On the next page you will find a link to the website of British council.
• Go to this website and choose 2 reading text you want to read and answer the questions.
• Try to practice with the reading strategie skimming!!

• Don't forget to answer the last question of this lesson after you completed the assignment.

How do we Scan?

Let's practise

1 Guess what text 3 (handout) is about by skimming the text.

2 Answer question 5, 6, & 7 in groups of 3 by scanning certain parts of the text.

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