Reading skills - exams I

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

Welcome!

Exams 

How do you tackle exams?

What - How

What?

Reading articles - answering questions

- multiple choice

-open questions

- cite

- claims = true/false & match

How?

predicting

skimming 

scanning 

close reading

analyse the structure of a text

How?

Skimming - getting a general overview of what the text is about (ELZE)

Scanning - looking for specific information

How?

Close reading

Make sure you understand the specific words/ sentence(s) in their context.

How?

Structure

What kind of text/What is the source?

Intro

Body - one topic per paragraph

Conclusion

How?

predicting

- what is the topic of the text?

- check title, pictures 

HAVO 2024

Do questions 4 and 5

Mark where you found the answers to your questions.

Mark which ones you found difficult. 

Ready?

Continue with the exam

New York Times Wordle

https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Show of hands

Associative thinking

What is the point of activating prior knowledge?