Lesson 1 The 57 Bus Skimming and Scanning

• English
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Teacher: Greet the students and ask them to sit in groups of 3 or 4. Tell them that you will be working in Lesson - up. Students should use their own names when logging into the lesson.

Students: Log on to Lesson up using their own name and then listen to what the teacher tells them on this slide and the next

Lesson Outcomes:

1. Students are able to make use of the strategies of skimming and scanning
2. Students will be aware of their unconscious reading.

Teacher: This lesson we will focus on reading strategies skimming and scanning. I also want you to be aware of your unconscious reading every day.

Students: Listen to what the teacher is saying

Teacher: Get students to think about reading and what it is. They can discuss it with their group and then they need to write their ideas into the mind map.

Once students have given their ideas, discuss them with the class

Students first discuss what they think reading is and then decide which ideas they will write down.

Teacher: Get the students to think about reading, what do they read, when etc. Give them time (2 minutes) to come up with as much information as possible and then on the next slide they can type in their answers after talking to their group. (1 minute)

Students: Discuss what they think reading is and the types of reading that they do. 

When and how do you
read ?

Teacher: Once students have written their ideas about what they think the different types of reading are, discuss what the students came up with.

Students: Write down what they think the different types of reading are. 

4 Reading Strategies

1. Skimming
2. Scanning
3. Intensive Reading
4. Extensive Reading

Teacher: Explains 

1) Skimming, going through the text to grasp the main idea

2) Scanning, ignoring irrelevant information and locating specific information

3) Intensive Reading, reading for comprehension

4) Extensive Reading reading a lot

Intensive reading is far more time-consuming than skimming and scanning as it needs the reader’s attention to detail. It involves close reading that aims at the accuracy of comprehension.

Extensive reading lays more emphasis on fluency and less on accuracy. It usually involves reading for pleasure

We will focus on Skimming and Scanning today

Students: Listen and take notes

Teacher explains the points mentioned and gives examples when to skimming.

Students: Listen and take notes

Skimming in Practice

The next two slides will take you to the exercises

Teacher: Explain to the students that in  the next two slides they will be sent to a different website to do some exercises. You will need to create an account before you can do the exercises. 

Students: Listen 

app.wizer.me

Teacher: Students will be sent to the site https://app.wizer.me/learn/KW5VWD, here they will first need to create an account before they can start doing the exercises.

Give students 5 minutes to create an account and then do exercise 1. There is no timer on this slide so make sure you keep and eye on the time yourself.

Students: Click on the link to go to the other website. Create an account for app.wizer.me, then do the first skimming exercise.

app.wizer.me

Teachers: This is the second skimming exercise. Give the students 5 minutes for this assignment because they need to write 50 words about what they think the article is about based on their skimming. This slide also doesn't have a timer so you need to keep track of time yourself.

Students: Go to app.wizer.me and do the second skimming exercise 

Teacher: Explain what scanning is and give examples of scanning. 

Students: Listen and take notes

Scanning in Practice

The next two slides will take you to the exercises

Teacher: In the next slide you will be taken to an exercise about scanning. They will need to find specific information in an article.

Students: Listen 

app.wizer.me

Teachers: Give students 4 minutes for this assignment. There is no timer so you need to keep track of time

Students: Go to app.wizer.me and do a scanning exercise about foster care.

In your notebook write five of the most essential vocabulary terms, with a sentence using the word.
In this space only write the words.

Teacher: Talk to students about the exercises, what did they find challenging and what was easy. Ask them to write down 5 words that they feel were essential to the lesson.

Students: Take part in class discussion about skimming and scanning exercises. Write down 5 essential words and use them in a sentence.

Teacher: This is a "homework" assignment to help students notice that they read daily and often without knowing that they are actually reading. This will help give them insight as to why reading in general is so important.

Students: Write down what the homework is in their agendas.