Reading Strategies Lesson 2, week 2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

In class today:

• Recap previous strategies
• Homework
• Starter 
• Sumarrizing theory
• Summarizing preparation
• Summarizing practice

Name all 4 previous reading strategies:

Quick recap:

1. Predicting: When you look at a headline or first line (or movie poster) and predict what you think the article is about by using prior knowledge and looking at key words
2. Skimming: When you are looking for the main idea or topic of the text (i.e. answering questions sucha as: what is the article about? )
3. Scanning: When you are looking at specific details in the text to find the answers to specific questions (i.e. " In what year did Mount Vesuvius erupt?'
4. Asking questions: Asking  yourself (formulating questions) before, during and after reading . These can be explicit (from the text) or implicit (form prior knowldge, curiosity etc..)
   REMEMBER YOU USE THESE STRATEGIES EVERYDAY PROBABLY WITHOUT REALIZING!

Lesson Aims:

HOMEWORK

• You have all picked a novel by now, start reading your novel so you finish on time!
• I want you to think about the reading strategies that you use daily (skimming through instagram, scanning for a departure time on a bus schedule etc..) . Before next class write down at least 5 strategies that you have used in the days between this class and our next class and bring this list to our lesson.

Starter:

• You will try to summarize a text in group
• I will put the texts (one for every group) in the front of the classroom.
• You will make groups of 4
• You will have one minute to discuss your strategy before the assignment.
• After you decide what to do: every person in the group gets one minute to read the text.
• After your whole group has read the text you have 3 minutes to write a summary of the text.
• You will present your summaries to the class.

Share your summaries

Summarizing: Theory

• It helps you determine important ideas and consolidate important details that support them
• It enables you to focus on key words and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering
• It teaches you how to take a large selection of texts and reduce it to the main points for better understanding.

How to summarize:

Always use these questions:

1. What are the main ideas?
2. What are the crucial details neccesary for supporting the ideas?
3. What information is irrelevant or unneccesary?

Use keywords or phrases to identify the main points of the text

Warm-up practice:

Open the Studiewijzer: lesson 2, week 2

• Read the paragraph under Warm-up and note the key words and phrases (you have 1 minute)

What were the keywords and phrases you identified?

Video How to Summarize

We will watch a video on summarizing. Take notes while watching the video.

After the video has finished you have 1 minute to write down the three top tips you heard. 

Please share your three top tips:

Practice on your own:

• Pick a text based on your level
• Read it on your own. Use the steps from the warm-up to write your summary: 1) identify the main ideas/topic 2) identify the irrelevant information
• Write a summary in your own words
• Finished? Compare with someone who read the same text (up to 4 people)
• Fill out the present and reflect form underneath the text

Present!

Evaluate:

Discuss with your neighbour what you have learned today and how this helps you to understand texts better.

What have you learned today and how will this help you understanding texts?

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HOMEWORK

• You have all picked a novel by now, start reading your novel so you finish on time!
• I want you to think about the reading strategies that you use daily (skimming through instagram, scanning for a departure time on a bus schedule etc..) . Before next class write down at least 5 strategies that you have used in the days between this class and our next class and bring this list to our lesson.