Reading Strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

English lesson, January 19th 2024

WELCOME EVERYONE!

Today

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Classrules 

Reading Strategies 

Attendance 

Class rules 

Today's lesson is about:

Reading strategies! 

 - How do you read a text? 

Lesson goals for today:

1. After this lesson, you will know different reading strategies.
2. After this lesson, you know how to apply reading strategies.

What do you already know about reading strategies / techniques?

Why are reading strategies important?

Reading strategies

1. Skimming: understanding the main idea and concept. 
2. Scanning: look for key/important information (for example: names, dates, numbers.
3. Intensive reading: read and understand the complete text.

Skimming

1. Read the title 
2. Read the introduction 
3. Search for the source (=bron) of your text
4. Look at pictures / images 
5. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

When I skim I do this:

Skim

the article on the next page. 

Answer the questions about the article. 

Skim the article on the next page. 

Answer the questions about this text. 

What is the title of the article?

Who wrote the article?

What is the article about, in your opinion?

Scanning 

1. Read the title and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
2. Look for keywords that tell you more about what you are looking for in a text
3. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

You are going to scan through news articles and then answer the following questions. 

When do you use the reading technique scanning?

1. Deciding if you want to read a news article or not.
2. Reading and understanding a complete text.
3. When you look for a date of birth.
4. While reading a recipe.

Hazzaa Ali Almansoori is from which country?

1. USA
2. UAE

Which Bollywood film was selected for the Oscars?

1. Gully Boy
2. Padmavat

Which state started the month-long Swachhata hi Seva Abhiyan?

1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Madha Pradesh

Intensive reading 

1. Read the complete text 
2. Pay attention to the introduction and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
3. Look for the most important sentences and words 
4. Look up the meaning of difficult words 

You should always use intensive reading during a reading test...

YES! I agree with this statement

No... I disagree with this statement.

TIPS

1. First read the QUESTIONS, then read the TEXT.
2. You don't need to know all the words in order to understand a text.
3. Practice, practice, practice! Skills need to be TRAINED. 

Intensively read the text; Thomas Edison

and answer the questions.  

Closing off...

* Which reading strategies are there? 

*Do you feel confident in using them? 

Homework 

Study studybox lessons 2 - 4 

on p. 129 - 132

Friday, what are we going to do?

1. introduction, magister, absence

CHECK learning vocab +  Hessel book + grammar check (make sentence ps + pc...Lauryn ..

2. check ex. 30 E, 31, 19b, 19c

3. new grammar subject page 76 and 99 MUCH and MANY

4. Homework: discuss new vocab +

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