1V les 3 reading - skimming and scanning

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Klas 1V les 3 Reading - skimming and scanning & reading comprehension

What's on for today?

- Question time

- Theory skimming and scanning.

- Practicing skimming and scanning.

- Reading comprehension

At the end of this lesson...

You will be able to explain the term 'skimming'.

You will be able to explain the term 'scanning'.

You will be able to apply both 'skimming' and 'scanning' when reading texts.

What reading
strategies & techniques
do you know?

Reading strategies

Together, we'll read 2 texts and answer a couple of questions about them.

Text #1:
Find the word

 'enema'. Put your  hand up when you find it.

1 One hot evening in Padua they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top 2 of the town. There were chimney swifts in the sky. After a while it got dark and the searchlights 3 came out. The others went down and took the bottles with them. He and Luz could hear them  4 below on the balcony. Luz sat on the bed. She was cool and fresh in the hot night.

5 Luz stayed on night duty for three months. They were glad to let her. When they operated on 

6 him she prepared him for the operating table; and they had a joke about friend or enema. He  

7 went under the anaesthetic holding tight on to himself so he would not blab about anything  

8 during the silly, talky time. After he got on crutches he used to take the temperatures so Luz    9 would not have to get up from the bed. There were only a few patients, and they all knew about 10 it. They all liked Luz. As he walked back along the halls he thought of Luz in his bed.

What did you do to find the word?

You used: Scanning

You scan a text to look for detailed information hidden in the text

How to scan: 

- Know what information you are looking for (so see the question first)

- Move your eyes through the text quickly

Text 2: What is the main topic of this paragraph? 

Put your hands up when you know it.

We all know what an egg looks like, right? Well, we might know less than we think—bird eggs can be spheres, teardrops and anything in between. An interdisciplinary group of scientists may have made progress in cracking the mystery behind how these different shapes emerged.

A new study in Science shows that differences in flight ability might actually start as early as the egg: birds that take to the skies have more elliptical, asymmetrical eggs, while land-bound birds (like ostriches) have more spherical eggs.

Main topic: Eggs of different birds and its shapes. Why are they so different.

When reading text #2, which strategy do you think you used?

1. skimming
2. scanning

Let's Skim

Let's pretend you haven't read the text, yet. (answer these questions work in pairs)

• What do you notice?
• What do you already know about the text without having read it?
• What do you think is the main theme
  
• What are important keywords?
  

Let's Skim

Skimming

You skim a text to get a general idea of what the text is about.

How to skim:

- Look at the title, subheadings, pictures and read the first an last lines of the paragraph

Why should you skim?

- To save time and to orientate yourself what the text is about

Reading strategies

We use strategies while reading to make it easier and less time consuming to answer questions about texts.

Skimming and scanning are two reading strategies.

What is scanning?

1. Read the whole text intensively
2. Find specific information
3. Understand the topic and the main points
4. It is the same as skimming

What is skimming

1. Reading the whole text intensively
2. Understand the topic and the main points
3. paying attention to details
4. To find specific information

When do you use skimming?
Give an example

Homework

Go to It's Learning and do reading assignment on sharks. Hand in your answers in It's Learning.

Read the following text and answer the questions

Your tonsils can get swollen when you have a sore___________.

The__________is located in the middle of the arm.

Another word for belly button is_______________.

She may never walk again because her ________was so badly injured

Read the following text and answer the questions

A new survey found that 20% American adults buy things they may not even want

1. True
2. False

A lot of consumers are influenced by ads.

1. True
2. False

Women only are concerned by compulsive buying

1. True
2. False

Men are more interested in psychiatric help than women

1. True
2. False

Compulsive shoppers can suffer severe depressions.

1. True
2. False

Take the test

It takes about 10 minutes.

Fill in your e-mail, country, postcode and reason why.

When you're finished we are going to discuss the outcome.

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