Reading strategies

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• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Reading strategies

Lesson goals 

• After the lesson, you will know why we practise reading. 
• After the lesson, you know when to use which reading strategy. 
• After the lesson, you can use scanning to find specific information in a text 
• After the lesson, you can use context clues to determine the meaning of different words 

why practice reading?

Why practice reading?

• Find useful information online
• Learn about different topics 
• Improves vocabulary 
• Learn new sentence-structure 

Reading strategies

• Skimming (aim = general idea of text) 
• Scanning (aim = finding specific information) 
• Using context (aim = reading to deduce meaning)  

Skimming

• Read the title and subheadings 
• Read the introduction and conclusion 
• Read the first and last sentence of every paragraph 

• Use when you need the main idea of the text  

Scanning

• Looking for specific information 
• Look for a name, date, word  

Scanning practice - word race 

The next slide has text 

I will give a word

Scan for that word 

If you have found it raise your hand 

Using context 

• How do you know what a word means without looking it up?
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• It can be explained further on in the sentence (definition) 
• Word part - do you know parts of the word?
• Ther might be examples or pictures  

What does re-examine mean?

What does irregular mean?

Prudent: She was prudent with the guest list, acting with great caution and care to only invite those she likes.

Procrastinating: He was procrastinating all day, playing video games and watching tv instead of doing homework.

Superfluous: Adding smarties to the M&M brownies was superfluous, extra and unnecessary.

Haughty: She is so humble and modest, she could never be called haughty.

Extra practice 

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/exams/reading-exams/reading-tasks