Reading skills G7 T3

Unit 3
1. Inferring ideas : when the story happened? What happened? (Students are to
explain something in their own words based on what is stated in tnh)
2. Identifying topic sentence (key idea), evidence and explanation
3. Identifying the writer’s intention (how the writer wants the reader to feel or
think and do after reading the text.
4. Identifying statistics used in the text and explain
5. Explaining the writer’s vocabulary choice (students analyze how much the
vocabulary gives impact to the reader)
6. Identify the structural feature of the text
7. Identifying the sentence structures used and the impact of the structures
8. Identifying the ways on how to engage the reader and their impact on the
reader
Kinds of sentence structures
1. Rhetorical Devices
- Rhetorical questions : But what if there was a better way to live life?
- Triple structures : It would change the way we spend our hours, our money and our energy.
- Repetition : Nobody really …. Nobody in their right mind …. Nobody really thinks …
- List : Advertisements from every television, radio, newspaper, magazine, billboard, and
website scream to us on a daily basis that is more is better.
- Direct address : I heard exactly what you said, John.)
2. Long sentence and short sentence : The longer sentence explains the details, short sentence
emphasizes the key idea.By using both short and long sentences, you add interest and drama to
your writing that keeps your readers’ attention. Short sentences have punch and are a great way
to emphasize important points. Longer sentences add rhythm to your writing
3. Heading, subheading, bullet pointed list
4. Introduction, body of paragraph, closing
 Structural Features of The Text
The heading tells what the text is about.
Introduction : To explain what a phrase in the heading means, To explain what
the webpage is about, to say what the problem is. To reassure the reader about
the key idea.
The subheadings : to highlight and inform the readers about the content of
each section. To make the webpage easier to read
The bullet-pointed lists : To guide the reader through the ideas, To make the
ideas clearer or easier to follow
Paragraph : to explain the details/ detailed information of the keypoints (in
the subheading)
Closing Paragraph : To conclude the content of the text
 Rhetorical Definition Effects
Device

Rhetorical Question asked when answer is not - hooking a reader’s interest

Question expected - making them think about their own response to the
Doing or saying something more than question in hand/ to involve the reader in an argument
once - Encourages the reader to think about the writer’s idea.

Triple Structure Persuasive pattern of three ideas To grab attention

To create dramatic effect
List Sequence of connected items written
one after another - To provide detailed information
- To convince the reader to agree with the writer’s idea

Repetition Doing or saying something more than It adds emphasis to a key idea
once
Direct Address Method of speaking directly to the To engage the reader
reader or listener
How to engage the reader to your story
To engage the reader with your ideas, provide this evidence

1. Personal anecdotes
2. Surprising facts or statistics
3. A controversial statement
4. A rhetorical question
Engaging The Reader
1. Personal Anecdote
The writer uses his/ her own experience in the text.
- an anecdote in the introduction of an essay can hook the
readers' attention.
- to create an emotional or sympathetic response.
- to help support a persuasive argument that the writer is
putting forward.

Example : When I was a kid, my father used to take me to an

amusement park in my village.
2. A surprising Fact or Statistics
your evidence will probably start with the
display of a table, graph, number : percentage,
degree, or map.
• To create a persuasive information
• To convince the reader with the data
• To replace uncertainty with cold, hard facts
• one of the most powerful tools in any rational
argument, especially in public presentations.
3. Controversial statement
A statement that invites people’s opinion.
• Boys and girls should not have equal education.
• A foreign language cannot be taught. It must be
learned.
• A country gets the government it deserves.
• All property should be owned by the state.
• Murderers should be executed.
4. Rhetorical Question
A question that doesn’t need answers.