Reading strategies 3hv1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson plan

• Lesson aims
• Reading strategies
• Exercises
• Recap lesson aims
• Questionnaire 

Lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Practice using context and prior knowledge to better understand a text;
• Practice using context and prior knowledge to guess the meaning of difficult words.

Reading strategies

• Loads of strategies
• Guessing words
• Using context and prior knowledge 

Reading strategies

To better understand a text you:

• Use context: images, titles, headers, key sentences.
• Prior knowledge: what do I know?

Reading strategies

To guess the meaning of difficult words you can:

• Use context: the rest of the sentence
• Use prior knowledge: What is a word that's similar?
• Use a dictionary
• Ask: Does it look similar to a Dutch word?

test-english.com

Translate the following words from the text: Subsequently, sculptor, outstretched, auction, fragile, restoration.

How would you go about reading a text like this?

Recap Lesson aims

After this lesson you can:

• Practice using context and prior knowledge to better understand a text;
  
• Practice using context and prior knowledge to guess the meaning of difficult words.

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