Reading Strategies lesson 2, week 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

In class today:

• Re-cap previous lessom
• New strategies: skimming and scanning
• Introduction skimming & scanning
• Practice skimming and scanning (class)
• Practice skimming and scanning (individually)
• Evaluate

Lesson Aims:

At the end of this lesson you:

● Will be able to find the main ideas of a text using skimming

● Will find details in a text using scanning

● Can explain what the difference between skimming and scanning is

What do
you think
this article
is about?

What do we call the strategy you just used?

docs.google.com

Let's practise:

• Open Google Classroom
• Open the worksheet: Lesson 2, week 1
• Practise skimmimg and scanning with text 1&2 from Anne Frank's Diary
• You have 6 minutes
• Make sure to write down the answers

1. In general, what was Anne’s diary entry about?




1. In general, what was Anne’s diary entry about?




In general: What was Anne's diary entry about?

What were Anne’s main points in this diary entry?

Where was Anne born?

When did she lose her citizenship?

What happened in 1944?

Who survived the concentration camps?

Who kept the diary?

How many languages has the diary been translated into?

Practise individually:

• Continue on the worksheet
• Pick a text at your level. VWO  students pick intermediate  or advanced texts
• You have 10 minutes to answer all questions on your text
• Use the strategies we have just learned!
• Finished? Read another text at a higher level or write down what strategies you used (and how) while working on the assignment.

When you are looking for the general idea or the main topic of an article you:

1. Predict
2. Scan
3. Skim
4. Summarize

When you need to find details in a text you use the following strategy:

1. Skimming
2. Predicting
3. Visualizing
4. Scanning

When I scan I do the following:

When I skim I do this:

Homework:

• Hand  the assignments from this class in via Google classroom
• Don't forget to pick a book to read and to start reading. Bring your book to our classes!
• If you are not sure if you can read a certain book, ask me!
• NO "Boy in the striped pyamas'!