Reading Strategies - A2Y - 27 November 2019

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2,3

Today's Lesson

• How do we find information in a text?
• Why is it important that we can find information in a text?
  
• Reading Strategies: what are some useful reading strategies that make it easier to find information in a text?
  

Aims of Today's Lesson

At the end of the lesson you can give examples of:

• 2 reading strategies: Multiple Choice
  
• How you can use these reading strategies
• How to apply those reading strategies to the texts that you're going to read.
  

What do you do?

What do you do when you want to find information in a text?

What do you do?

Why do people write?

1. To inform
2. To instruct
3. To entertain
4. To convince

Read Tekst 2:

Glamour recruitment

5 minutes

Exam Tip: Multiple Choice

Read the text first and then the question. For some questions you need to think about the writer's purpose. Ask yourself if the text is descriptive or factual or how the writer presents the information

Tekst 2: Glamour recruitment

2 minutes

Multiple Choice Questions

• Keywords in the questions: do these also appear in the text? Or similar words? (synonyms?)
  
• There's ALWAYS one answer that makes no sense whatsoever: ELIMINATE THIS ONE!
  

• There are always two answers that make you doubt EVERYTHING (what is life even?): make sure you keep the purpose of the text in mind when this happens. Think! Is this answer relevant to the main theme of the text? Is this really the point the text is trying to make?

Acronym Time

Keywords in the questions

Answers that are complete nonesense

Doubt everything answers

Purpose of the text

                     KAD P or Cat pee!

Tell me what each letter of KADP (Cat pee) stands for: