Functional Skills Writing Comprehension S 2 M Aslami

Functional Skills Writing: Comprehension S’ 2 M. Aslami Level 1 Functional Skills Literacy Health and Social Care Students

Recap last week Can you remind me what comprehension is write your answer on a piece of paper.

Comprehension General Comprehension Definition of comprehension in English: The ability to understand something. Reading Comprehension Reading comprehension is the ability to a read text, process it and understand its meaning. An individual's ability to comprehend text is influenced by their traits and skills, one of which is the ability to make logical conclusions.

How do I improve my comprehension 1. Use a dictionary. 2. Make notes. 3. Read carefully, read slowly , if needed read repeatedly until it makes sense.

Levels of comprehension 1. Understanding the text. 2. Engaging with the text. 3. Evaluating the text.

How do I improve my comprehension 1. Paragraphing 2. Layout and design 3. Purpose of text

Aims & Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to: Students will explore how making connections aids comprehension. Students will learn about inference and will demonstrate use of inference skills in today's session. Students will explore where comprehension skills are important in everyday use. And create a variety of comprehension questions which relate to everyday use and subjects outside of the English classroom. You will set yourself two more personal targets of development. You will plan your route to achieving those targets.

Making Connections E. Keene and S. Zimmerman (1997) concluded that students comprehend better when they make different kinds of connections: Text-to-self Text-to-text Text-to-world

Inference An inference is an idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence and reasoning. inference noun in·fer·ence ˈin-f(ə-)rən(t)s, -fərn(t)s : the act or process of reaching a conclusion about something from known facts or evidence : a conclusion or opinion that is formed because of known facts or evidence.

Inference

Activity 1 Inference discussion

Activity 2 Inference activity sheet

Reading comprehension in our daily lives

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Activity Please read through the article and create some questions of your own. Within your questions show me what you have learnt from our section on inference.

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Break

Activity 3 Comprehension worksheets

Comprehension worksheets Group work

Summarising and Evaluating

Adding targets I want you to set yourselves at least two new targets to help you improve your reading comprehension.

Discuss targets I want you and your partner/partners to discuss how you aim to improve on the skills you have described

Discuss targets Share your targets with the class. Share how you are planning on addressing them.

Have we met our objectives? (Please complete the sheets you were asked to fill in at the beginning of today’s class. )

Conclusions and questions