Strategies for Reading Comprehension 2003

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Strategies For Reading

Comprehension


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2. Use graphemic rules and pattern3. Use efficient silent reading

4. Skim the text for main ideas

5. Scan the text for specific info

7. Guess when you arent certain

6. Use semantic mapping or clustering

8. Analyze vocabulary9. Distinguish between literal and implied

10. Capitalize on discourse markers

TEN STRATEGIES

1. Identify the purpose in reading


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Know what you are looking for,

Weed out potential distracting information

State your reading purpose,

Take the core of your reading material


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Yes, Not, Top, Hat, Hot.

Take, Fake, Tape, Cane, Cone.

Couch, Leaf, Beat, Neat, Peak.Cat vs City, Game vs Gem.

SHO T VO EL VC

LONG VO EL VCe

LONG VO EL VV

HA D and SOFT


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1. No need to pronounce each word to yourself.

2. Try to perceive more than one word a time.

Ex: Green Eyed Monster. (Phrase from Shakespeare)

3. Skip over the difficult word and try to get its

meaning from the context.

It is used in The Merchant of Venice, 1596 and In Othello, 1604


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Skimming is used to quickly identify the main

ideas of a text.

1. Read the first and last paragraphs using

headings, summarizes and other organizers as

they move down the page or screen.

2. Read the title, subtitles, subheading, and

illustrations.

3. Consider reading the first sentence of each

paragraph.


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Scanning Extract Specific Information without

reading through the whole text.Every second, 1 hectare of the world's rainforest is destroyed. That's equivalent to

two football fields. An area the size of New York City is lost every day. In a year, that

adds up to 31 million hectares -- more than the land area of Poland. This alarming

rate of destruction has serious consequences for the environment; scientists

estimate, for example, that 137 species of plant, insect or animal become extinct

every day due to logging. In British Columbia, where, since 1990, thirteen

rainforest valleys have been clear-cut, 142 species of salmon have already become

extinct, and the habitats of grizzly bears, wolves and many other creatures are

threatened. Logging, however, provides jobs, profits, taxes for the government and

cheap products of all kinds for consumers, so the government is reluctant to

restrict or control it.

How many species of salmon have become extinct in BC?

A. 27

B. 31

C. 137

D. 142


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QUALIFICATI N

FINAL

T URNAMENT

Africa,

Asia,

C NCACAF*,

South America,

ceania,

Europe.

32 national teams which is pass

Qualification Round

*Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football

Group Qualification(8 Group, 32 Teams)

Round of 16

The quarter-finals

The semi-finals

The third-place match The final


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GUESS:

1.Meaning f a word

2.Grammatical Relationship

3.Discourse Relationship4.Implied Meaning

5.Cultural Reference

6.Content Messages


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Several Techniques are useful:1. Look at prefixes

2.Look for suffixes

3. Look for the root word

4.

Look for grammatical context5. Look at the semantic context


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a) Bill walked in to the frigid classroom andimmediately notice Bob, sitting by the openwindow.

brrr! he exclaimed, simultaneously eyeing Boband the open window, Its sure cold in here, Bob

Bob glanced up from his book and growled oh,alright, Ill close the window.

c) Mary heard the ice cream man coming down

the street. She remembered her birthday money

and rushed into the house and locked the door.

b) The Policeman held up his hand and stop the

car.


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Look out Table 18.2, page 311.


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TYPE F CLASSR M READING PERF RMANCE

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