Lesson 3: Digesting the text

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Lesson 3: Digesting the text

Reading training 3V

Rythovius College

Digesting the text

- Today, we will look at the text and discuss it in depth without having to answer comprehension questions

- We will learn how we can use background knowledge and our own insights to comprehend the text

We will use: KWL method

K = what do you Know (Inference)

W = what do you Want to know

L = what have you Learned

K = What do you Know

1. Look at the title and the photo

2. write key words about what you already know about the topic...

What are your associations?

STEP 1: What do we already know?
The title is: The Dilemma of Horns.
Look at the photo.
What do you think the text will be about? What do you already know about the topic?
Think about: What, where, why, what happens.

STEP 2: W = what do we Want to find out?
Think of 3 questions that you think will be answered after you read the article:

Also copy-paste them on to your word document!

YOUR TURN: WORD.doc

DO: Assignment 1, 2

1. Write your questions for W (What do you Want to know)?

2. Read the article. Try to see if the article answers all your questions. Go back to the assignment 1 (What do you Want to know) and write YES, NO or PARTLY next to the question.

Finished? Do assignment 3 on the LESSONUP (next slide)

L = what have you Learned?
What are some key points of the text? Did it answer any of your W (what do I want to know) questions?

                     In break-out rooms (3 or 5), discuss the following questions.

Is it ethical that the Rhino Rescue Project injects the horns with toxins? Why?

Can you think of another way to solve the problem, aside from injections or synthetic horns? Explain.

HOMEWORK

1. Read the text:  Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all (Word.doc p. 14)

2. Answer the questions

3. Highlight where in the text you found your answers (or the clues for the answer)

4. The next lesson we will look through it together

(It is essential you know where you got your answers from)

Time left?

Discuss inference exercise (Who Kidnapped the Principal)

K = what do you Know (Inference)

W = what do you Want to know

L = what have you Learned

Recap