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Learn the vital steps to truly comprehend what you read. Recognize text type, subject matter, visual cues, and implications. Make personal connections and mental summaries for better understanding.
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REMEMBER THE READING PROCESS? The vital steps to follow to really understand what you are reading. Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
PREDICT 26th April 2012 Dear Sir I would like to complain in the strongest possible terms about children skateboarding in the shopping centre car park every evening. It is impossible to park your car without it being damaged by these hooligans who have no respect for their elders or other people’s property. I have already contacted the police to make more regular patrols of the area but it seems that they are “too busy” to bother. The parents of these children should be forced to pay for the damage that they inflict on other people’s property. Sincerely J Harris Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
WHAT DO YOU THINK? • What type of text is that? What clues did you get? • What is the subject matter going to be about? Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE • What do you know about this text type? • What do you know about the problem being explained? Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
VISUALISE, MAKE INFERENCES, SELF MONITOR 26th April 2012 Dear Sir I would like to complain in the strongest possible terms about children skateboarding in the shopping centre car park every evening. It is impossible to park your car without it being damaged by these hooligans who have no respect for their elders or other people’s property. I have already contacted the police to make more regular patrols of the area but it seems that they are “too busy” to bother. The parents of these children should be forced to pay for the damage that they inflict on other people’s property. Sincerely J Harris Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
WHAT PICTURES DID YOU MAKE? • What sort of person did J Harris appear to be when you read his/her letter? • What does “strongest possible terms” mean? • What does “hooligans” mean? • What does “inflict” mean? Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
MAKE CONNECTIONS Any personal experience or knowledge of: • Skateboarding in a car park? • Damage to cars in car park? • Letters of complaint to newspaper? Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
ASK MENTAL QUESTIONS, SUMMARISE • WHO WROTE THE LETTER? • WHAT WAS IT ABOUT? • WHERE WAS IT HAPPENING? • WHEN WAS THIS HAPPENING? • WHY WAS THE WRITER UPSET? • HOW DID THE WRITER TRY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM? Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com
SYNTHESISE • WRITE A REPLY FROM SOMEONE WHO SKATEBOARDS IN THE CAR PARK. Geraldine Norris: www.linkingtoliteracy.com