8. ATL task: Preview and skim texts to build understanding

• Spaans
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Mi diario

Objetivo:

Leer un diario y desarrollar las habilidades de lectura

ATL: Communication

How are your reading skills?

Complete Section 1 in the Google Form on the following slide to establish your reading skills at present... 

Be honest!

https:

Let's do this...

We're going to read a complex text in Spanish, but in a very structured way... Follow these steps:

1. Skim the text for gist, and write an appropriate title in the following slide.
2. Scan the text and annotate words you know. DO NOT LOOK ANY WORDS UP - there's no need!
3. Scan the text again, and answer the questions on the following slides. Focus on words you know, images, context, and what's around the words you don't know in order to decipher the meaning. (See UNLOCK THE CODE)
   
4. Summarise the text in no more than 20 words! (remember a summary doesn't contain specific details - ask yourself, what would I tell my parents I read about in Spanish today?)

Do the first question together as an example, getting the students to rephrase the vocabulary from the question in their answer. 

This encourages them to write in full sentences, and further work with the strategies. 

For example, with the question Que désigne aujourd'hui le terme "francophonie"? students can't figure out the meaning of désigne, but they know the rest of the sentence because of prior learning or cognates. They firstly have to translate what they do know into their best language, and then from there figure out the grammatical role of the word (here it's a verb). They then have to say the sentence to themselves, and figure out the meaning of the blank word based on the context. Get them to ask themselves: what would make most sense here??

El texto

Haz clic en la diapositiva siguiente para acceder al texto...

https:

Escribe un titulo apropiado:

Strand i

identify explicit and implicit information (facts and/or opinions, and supporting details)

Verdadero o falso: Alma es la hermana de Ana María. (1 punto)

1. Verdadero
2. Falso

Escribe una cita del texto para justificar tu respuesta. (1 punto)

Who suggested to travel by train and why? ( 2 marks)

Pon estos eventos en el orden que se ocurre:
go to a club - go up a tower - eat in a bar - go shopping - walk around the city - visit a cathedral
(1 punto)

Do you think that Ana María and Alma know each other very well? Give two reasons from the text to support your answer. (2 marks)

Resume el texto en no más de 20 palabras. (1 punto)

Strand ii

analyse conventions

What type of text is this? How do you know? Identify a specific convention used to support your answer. (2 marks)

What convention is missing from the text? (1 mark)

What is the purpose of the text?

1. to inform
2. to educate
3. to persuade
4. to record

Write a quote from the text to support your answer to the previous question (re: purpose). (1 mark)

In which paragraph is a secret given? (1 mark)

1. 1
2. 4
3. 5
4. 7

Strand iii

analyse connections

Do you write texts like this one? Explain why/why not. (1 mark)

What do you think is a better way of documenting your personal journeys: writing about it, or posting it on social media? Explain. (1 mark)

Explain this sentence: "No lo entiendo, ¿por qué tiene redes sociales si las odia?" (1 mark)

Do you have the same opinion as Alma regarding social media? Explain. (1 mark)