Reading strategies

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2-4

English today 

Reading strategies 

Today's programme 

What do we remember? 

Refresh your mind 

Reading activity on Learnbeat 

Which reading strategies do you remember?

By the end of today's class 

You have revised skimming and scanning 

You have practiced skimming and scanning

Skimming is

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

Scanning is...

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

Scanning

Bij scanning 'scan' je een tekst op zoek naar specifieke informatie. Je zoekt gericht naar bepaalde woorden die je niet vindt door te skimmen.

Skimming

- read title and headings 

- look at photos / pictures

- read first and last paragraph

Why do you think 'skimming' is used?

Practice on Learnbeat 

Go to learnbeat.com and submit the code 

Make: chapter 4.1 Reading: Elephants for sale 

Read the text. Find the main points for each paragraph

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WH-questions

Who?

What? 

Where? 

When? 

Check? 

You have revised skimming and scanning 

You have practiced skimming and scanning