READING STRATEGIES LEARNING OBJECTIVE list and apply pre

READING STRATEGIES

LEARNING OBJECTIVE list and apply pre reading strategies

BRAINSTORM With the person nearest you brainstorm some reading strategies you already might know.

PRE READING: ESTABLISHING A PURPOSE Perhaps the most important pre-reading strategy is being clear about why you are reading a text and what you want to get out of it. If you do not know what you are looking for, how will you know when you find it? One of the best ways to establish a purpose is to set one or more focus questions to which you want to find answers. Examples - For a persuasive text you mind find your focus question would be: ‘What is the writers’s main argument in this passage? ’ and ‘What evidence and reasons dose the writer offer to support the argument? ”

PRE READING: ACTIVATING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE Activating existing knowledge about a text you are about to read means bringing to the front of your mind what you already know about the topic that is the subject of that text.

PRE READING: OVERVIEWING Overviewing involves glancing over or through a text to get a general idea of its content, organisation and main parts. For example, with a longer text – such as a book or website – you might look at the cover page and the table of contents, quickly read the foreword and flick through the text, glancing at diagrams, illustrations and tables. Title

PRE READING: SCAFFOLDING The first form is to collect knowledge (meaning knowledge that you do not already possess) in order to help you understand the text you are about to read. For example, if you travel to Algonquin Park you might want to read up on it before visiting. The second form relates to unfamiliar vocabulary. This is when you read a word you don’t understand a term and you immediately look it up in a dictionary.

ACTIVITY: BRAINSTORM You are about to read an important document concerning health and safety. In pairs, use the pre reading strategies to come up with a list of prior knowledge that you might need.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE list and apply reading strategies

WAYS OF READING QUICKLY Scanning is basically a key word search. It involves simply scanning your eyes across a text looking for key words related to your focus question. It involves searching for words that are similar to your focus question and then continuing until you find the exact words you are looking for. Skimming is sometimes called ‘reading for gist’, which means getting a general sense of a text as a whole. Skimming is like overviewing, but in a little more detail.

READING FOR DETAILED UNDERSTANDING Monitoring your understanding – pausing and thinking This means paying attention to your comprehension of a text, rather than just letting the words flow by you. It involves asking questions such as: ‘What do I think this text has told me so far? ’ Two tricks: • Re-reading – especially when you did not understand something. • Paraphrasing – means taking part of a text – such as a phrase or sentence – and putting it into your own words.

READING FOR DETAILED UNDERSTANDING Inferring Means to work out things that are not directly stated in a text. Inferring can involve: • Working out an author’s attitude to a topic • Deducing a character’s feelings or motives • Imagining what a character looks like • Thinking of examples that fit a statement by an author • Predicting future developments in a text

READING FOR DETAILED UNDERSTANDING Reading with Critical awareness Reading with critical awareness involves paying attention to what the writer of a text is doing, and thinking about the effects of the choices that have been made. In involves asking questions such as: • What seems to be the author’s purpose of the text? • For what sort of audience does the author appear to be writing? • Why might this piece of information have been included? • Why has this particular word been used at this point?

ACTIVITY I will pass out the following article on work place health and safety from Work Safe WA. With a partner, your job is to examine the following document for key information using: - pausing and thinking - inferring - reading with critical awareness

LEARNING OBJECTIVE list and apply post reading strategies

POST READING SKILLS Recapping and summarising Means to go over the main points of a text, either in your head or by writing them down. Applying your reading Means to make connections between a text and yourself and your world. Making Judgements Means to make judgements involving thinking about what we have read and asking questions such as: • How convicting do I find this argument? • How realistic do I think this story was?

DECODING STRATEGIES Used to work out the meanings of unfamiliar words when reading. Some ways: • Ignore it: you do not have to understand every word to comprehend the mains ideas in a text • use context: this means using the surrounding words to work out the meaning of the unfamiliar word • Use morphology: this means working out the meaning of the word from the parts of the word.

TODAY’S WORK Please try these reading strategies with these two activities.