Reading strategies

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

A lesson about reading strategies

Which of the following answers is a reading strategy?

1. Dropping
2. Scanning
3. Skimming
4. Roaming

Today's lesson

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

Lesson goal

• You will learn more about skimming, scanning and the ELZA method.
• You will find out how you can use these strategies in your test.
• You will learn how to apply these reading strategies to the text you are going to read.

Which strategy do you use when you read the complete text because you think it is very interesting?

1. Intensive reading
2. Skimming
3. Scanning

Which strategy do you use when you are looking for specific information?

1. Intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Which reading strategy will help you to read the text quickly to create better understanding of what you read?

1. intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Which strategy will help you to find out what the most important information of the paragraph is?

1. intensive reading
2. skimming
3. scanning

Time to go to work

• Handouts
• Try to practice with the reading strategies!!