2V - Reading strategies

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Reading strategies

What reading strategies do you remember?

Lesson goals

1.  I can name 3 reading strategies.
2. I know when to use which strategy.
3. I can correctly apply said strategies.
4. I know my strenghts and weaknesses regarding reading.

What went wrong?

When reading, I struggle the most with...

Time management

Important information vs. the rest

Understanding and reading the question correctly

Concentration

Strategies

• Skimming
• Scanning
• Close reading

Skimming (globaal lezen)

Read...

• the title and subtitle
• look at pictures
• introduction
• conclusion
• 1st and last sentence of each paragraph

Scanning (zoekend lezen)

Search through the text for specific information.

This is especially useful for numbers, dates, etc.

Close reading (intensief lezen)

Read the entire text in order to understand everything. 

Highlight or underline.

Main purpose?

Look up words you don't know. 

Scanning is...

1. detailed reading
2. looking for italised and bold words
3. reading the summary
4. Looking for specific information

Skimming is

1. Reading titles, headers, subheads
2. Looking for specific information
3. Read first/last sentence of the paragraph
4. Read intensively

A question asks you what a paragraph is generally about. What strategy do you use?

1. skimming
2. scanning
3. close reading

If we want to quickly understand the main idea of a text, we use:

1. scanning
2. close reading
3. skimming

Skimming

Scanning

Close reading

Underlining

Highlighting

Read title/headline

Look at visuals

Read 1st and last sentence

Find evidence

Look for specific word or synonym

Look for numbers, capital letters, etc.

Reading exercise

P. 18 - Exercise 5

Reading exercise

How did it go?

This lesson's key terms

Reading strategies

Skimming

Scanning

Close reading

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