Reading strategies week 2, lesson 1

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Reading Strategies

Lesson 1, week 2

In class today:

• Homework
• Recap previous lessons
• Strategy: Asking questions
• Practice
• Reflect

Lesson aims:

• Be able to name the 4 different strategies we have learnt and practised this class and previous classes.
• Know why the strategy ' Asking questions' is an important one 
• You have practised the strategy 'Asking questions'

Homework:

• Make sure you have picked a book for your bookreport and that you start reading! (I've put the reading list in the Studiewijzer)
• Pick 1 or 2 articles from the website of the Mirror or the Guardian (link in the Studiewijzer) . Write down the questions you have before, during and after reading the article(s). We will practise this today.

Which strategy do you use when you read only a headline or first line?

1. Predicting
2. Scanning
3. Skimming
4. Summarizing

When you need to find details in a text you use the following strategy:

1. Skimming
2. Predicting
3. Visualizing
4. Scanning

When you are looking for the general idea or the main topic of an article you:

1. Predict
2. Scan
3. Skim
4. Summarize

Let's start asking questions!

Congratulations!

Dear participant,

We recently conducted some interviews around your city and your name repeatedly came up. So we are writing this letter to inform you that you have been chosen to appear in our new reality show called "Saving the Animals of the Rainforest'!

Next Saturday a limo will be picking you and a family member up at your house. You will be travelling to the wonderful Amazon rainforest as a participant in our tv show and will be staying for two weeks

Once again, congratulations!

Saving the Animals of the Rainforest Producer

Assignment:

Well Congratulations! It sounds like you will be heading to South America. 

Write down some questions you have right know as you prepare to be in this new and exciting reality tv show.

(you have 1 minute, submit your answers in lessonup on the next slide)

Which questions do you have about the letter that you just received?

Assignment 2:

• Write down some questions you may have during the adventure (1 min individually)
• Compare your answers with your neighbour (2 minutes)
• Share your answers with the class.

Some possible questions:

• How will I get around this rainforest?
• Will I get attacked by an anaconda?
• Where do I find these animals?
• What do I do to save these animals once I find them?

Reading strategy: questions

Just like asking questions about a reality tv show to the Rainforest it is important to ask questions before, during and after reading.

There are two types of questions you can ask:

1. Text explicit questions

2. Text implicit questions

Explicit questions:

• Answers that can be found in the text

Implicit questions

• Answers that are formed from prior knowledge
• Answers that require further investigations
• Answers that come from your natural curiosity 

Asking Questions: Theory

• Good readers ask question before, during and after reading
  
• Asking questions clarifies the meaning of the text
• We get a greater understanding of the text
• We could look up answers that we didn't get from the text, to extend our knowledge 

Putting strategy into practise

1. Choose a text from ITunesU at your level: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced. 
2. Write down questions pre-reading, during reading and after reading
3. Write down the answers (or look them up, if they are not in the text)

Tips: 

• Look at the title, headings, pictures, etc to think of questions you want answered
• What background knowledge do you have and what extra information do you hope to get from the text?
• After reading: answer all your questions with help from the text

Example questions:

• What can I learn from reading this text?
• What is the main point that the author is trying to make?
• What is the tone of the article?
• What more do I want to know about ...?

Evaluation:
What makes the reading strategy 'asking questions' useful?

Homework :

• Read two articles form either the mirror.co.uk or the guardian.co.uk and use the asking questions strategy by: 

1. Asking questions before reading
2. During reading
3. After reading 

• Start reading the book for your bookreport.

www.mirror.co.uk

www.guardian.co.uk