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• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

Practicing Reading.

Lesson goals for today:

1. After this lesson, you will know different reading strategies.
2. After this lesson, you know how to apply reading strategies.

Reading strategies

- Previewing.

- Contextualizing.

- Summarizing.

- Skimming.

- Scanning.

Read quickly. Try to explain, in your own words, what happened.

Jail job applicant not hired, arrested instead in theft case.

Previewing

Looking for things that can tell you a bit more before reading the entire article.

Things like:

- Headlines and pictures

- Starting phrases of paragraphs

What do you think happened?

Contextualizing

Putting a text into context.

This makes it easier to make sense of new information.

You're looking for reference points. Is it a story about the entire world or just a certain place. Is it about history, current events or the future?

In what kind of context would you put this article?

What's the difference between
skimming and scanning?

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