Reading strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

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Reading strategies 

Types of reading strategies  

• Reading strategies
• Listening exercise
• Reading exercise
  
• New vocabulary
• End of lesson

After this week's lesson you should be able to: 

• Identify the purpose of a text. 
• Preview a text. 
• Use different reading strategies to find information in a text.

Reading a text

 Previewing a text: 

• Subject
• Pictures
• Main title
• Subheadings
  
• Authors

Reading

Purposes of a text (what does the writer want from you): 

Inform, instruct, persuade, entertain

Reading strategies:

• Scanning:  specific information/details
• Skimming:  topic and main points, getting the author's point of view
• Intensive Reading: complete understanding of the text as a whole

Reading strategies 

Scanning

To find specific information

Skimming

To understand the topic and the main points

Intensive reading 

To understand exactly what the writer means. 

Reading exercise

• Read text 
• Look at the questions and try to answer them
• Answer the questions
• Individually