Reading Lesson 1
Reading Lesson 1
Academic
Purposes
Reading Writing Presenting
Listening
Effective reading 1
You are reading for a purpose
Dr. Indriana Kartini
What is reading
Getting meaning from text
Types of reading
Silent reading
Oral reading
Comics
Newspapers
News, Business, Sports,
Entertainment
Magazines
News, Language, Serious, Popular
Reading Purpose
For pleasure
For course requirements
For exam
For increasing knowledge
For information
For promotion in job
For study
For work (Getting or holding a job)
To kill time
To solve a problem
Different purposes determine different reading
speed and strategies.
Assessing Reading
Reading tests
Comprehension questions
Detail Questions
Following Directions Questions
Main Idea Questions
Inference
Sequence
Assessing Reading
Alternative assessment
Projects
Journals
Portfolios
Diaries and logs
Checklists and rating scales
Group work evaluation
Self-evaluation
Question examples
Main Idea Question:
The purpose of this passage is to .
Sequence Question:
Look at the four squares [ ] that
indicate where the following sentence
could be added to the passage.
For example, consider the case when
authorities question a witness about a
car accident.
Where would the sentence best fit?
Strategies
survey the text
analyse the problems/questions
check your answer go back to
the text
Analyse the
problems/questions
read it carefully
general
specific information (number, time, activity ?)
develop your own glossary
Punctuation: Importance
in reading and writing
Comma, period, question mark, exclamation
mark, underlining, italicized print.
Regulates the traffic of words in reading
Important for reading fluency
Important in comprehending whole science
text passage
Points to remember
Reading exercises
finding general theme (main ideas)
finding topic sentence
finding specific information (answering
open question)
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III 1
The eggs hatch after two to five weeks and the larvae then
wander across the wood to find suitable entry points through
which to bore into the timber. 2They then take between two and
ten years to complete their development. 3The larvae pupate in
late summer to early autumn, each individual having constructed
a pupal cell just below the surface of the wood. 4After two or three
weeks, the immature beetle emerges from the pupal skin, but
then remains torpid inside the chamber until the following spring
or early summer. 5The mature beetle then cuts perfectly round
hole, three to five millimetres in diameter, and emerges covered
in a fine layer of wood powder.
Reading exercises
gap-filling exercises
1. oak
3. by fungi
5. ten weeks
2. willow
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Fossils in the rocks, and the rock layers themselves, can give
us a great deal of information about life and conditions on
earth in the past. 2There are many unique ecosystems, and a
lot of different kinds of plants and animals living in them. 3An
ecosystem is an area where plants, animals, the landscape,
and the climate all interact together to create a unique
environment. 4Some of the extreme conditions make it an
excellent site for an "X-Games gathering. 5In this lesson you
will take a closer look at the organisms that inhabit some of
the Grand Canyon ecosystems.
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Word Game
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not cheap
to sell products to other countries
the way out of a building
a test
If you dont do this, you wont stay
healty
someone who knows a lot about
something
to think something is going to
happen
Im right on time. It is 5 oclock
to give something & get something
. for being late
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