Reading Strategies Year 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t, mavo, havo
• Leerjaar 1

Let's get started!

• Take out your books, pencil case and homework.

• Start reading, I'll walk around and check your homework.

Lesson goals for today:

1. After this lesson, you will know one reading strategy that you can use for matching.
2. After this lesson, you will know vocabulary connected to teenage pressures.
3. You will know what opposite adjectives are.

What is he doing?

1. He is sleep.
2. He are sleeping.
3. He is sleeping.
4. Is he sleeping?

What is he doing?

1. He eat.
2. He is ieting
3. He are eating
4. He is eating.

What is he doing?

1. He am dancing.
2. He is dancing.
3. He are dancing.
4. He dancing.

What is she doing?

What is she doing?

Today's lesson is about:

• Reading strategies! How do you read a text?
• Open your books on page 36.

 

Practice time

• Exercise 1 & 2  together.
• Exercises 3, 6, 7, 8 & 9- individually.

Answers

What do you already know about reading strategies / techniques?

Why are reading techniques important?

Reading techniques

1. Skimming: understanding the main idea and concept. 
2. Scanning: look for key information (for example: names, dates, numbers.
3. Intensive reading: read and understand the complete text.

Skimming

1. Read the title 
2. Read the introduction 
3. Search for the source (=bron) of your text
4. Look at pictures / images 
5. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

When I skim I do this:

Scanning 

1. Read the title and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
2. Look for keywords that tell you more about what you are looking for in a text
3. Look at bold or underlined words or words in italics. 

When do you use the reading technique scanning?

1. Deciding if you want to read a news article or not.
2. Reading and understanding a complete text.
3. When you look for a date of birth.
4. While reading a recipe.

Intensive reading 

1. Read the complete text 
2. Pay attention to the introduction and subheadings (=tussenkopjes)
3. Look for the most important sentences and words 
4. Look up the meaning of difficult words 

You should always use intensive reading during a reading test...

YES! I agree with this statement

No... I disagree with this statement.

TIPS

1. First read the QUESTION+ANSWERS, then read the TEXT.
2. You don't need to know all the words in order to understand a text.
3. Practice, practice, practice! Skills need to be TRAINED. 
4. Useful website: British Council Teens (level A2). Link is in the study planner / Google Classroom.