Reading Skills

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 Table of Contents
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Strategies Reading Task

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Identifying – Purpose &
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Vocabulary
Audience
 COMPREHENSION
01 STRATEGIES
QUESTIONING CLARIFYING

PREDICTING

SUMMARISING VISUALISING

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Predicting
 Use the story clues and illustrations to predict what
is going to happen next in the story or text.

 Use bullet points and the following prompts to help

you:
I think... I bet... I wonder if... I imagine... I predict... •

 What is the purpose of this text?:

to entertain? to inform? to persuade?
and how do you know?

 Who are the target audience of this text and how do

you know?
 Questioning
 Ask questions to help your group
understand and discuss what has been
read.

 You should think of at least 8 questions as

you read the book or text.

 Use the following question words to help:

Who? Where? What?

How? Why? When?

Clarifying
 Clear up any parts of the story you
found confusing.

 Find examples of good vocabulary

and explain their meaning.

 Find examples of unfamiliar words

and punctuation and explain their
use or meaning.
 Summarising
 Summarise the main things that happened in
your reading/story.

 Use bullet points and as few words as

possible to do this.

 Use the following to create short summary

sentences:

The main events were:

The problem/resolution was...
The character(s) involved was/were... The
story was set...
The most important part of the story was..
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Identifying – Purpose &
Audience
Time to use your writing pads!
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Identify
Reading Task 03
Let us practise a few strategies!
 MERCURY
Focus Using different strategies to understand
text

Type of text, How do you know?

What will the text tell us?
PRE-READING

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VOLCANIC ERUPTION:
Reading Task

LABEL ME IN PAIRS
1. Highlight the NOUNS using green colour.
2. Highlight the verbs using blue colour.
3. Use the sub-headings to label the
diagram.

INDIVIDUAL WORK
Use the diagram and text to explain how
the volcano erupts.
Graphic Organisers for
Analysis

Fiction
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Vocabulary
Time to learn new words!
Vocabulary Learning
Vocabulary
 The average student
learns about 3000
words/year or 6-8
words/day. If they are
taught new words – 8-
10 words/week for 37-
50 weeks, about 300-
500 words /year can be
taught through direct
instruction.
Steven A Stahl
Three Principles of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Bloom’s taxonomy
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CREDITS:
1. International Research on Reading Comprehension by Edinburgh Literacy Hub
2. https://www.dailyteachingtools.com/free-graphic-organizers.html
3. 3 principles of effective vocabulary instructions by S.A. Stahl
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