1. Reading 101
Reading Strategy -
Unlocking a passage's secrets

2. Learning Objectives
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To learn the basic structure of all
comprehension passages
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To apply learning strategies in deepening
comprehension

3. Introduction
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Do these scenarios reflect you when answering
Comprehension Cloze and OE?
1) 'Best' answers given but still marked wrong
2) Answers 'almost' correct but no marks awarded
3) Answers not complete, half mark awarded
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If the above three scenarios reflect you, then
you need a superior method in comprehending
a comprehension passage!
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There's a reason that it's named as such!

4. How we read
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You learnt in the previous lesson that our brains
don't read in bits and pieces but in 'chunks'.
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Our brains are powerful mapping machines –
able to develop associations to almost anything.
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Any information can be associated.
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Activate your knowledge with these concepts:
1) Level 1 – School Increasin
2) Level 2 – Job g
3) Level 3 – Genes Dfficulty

5. Prior knowledge
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This information is called prior knowledge –
what you already know about the topic.
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Thinking about the information first is the
equivalent of giving your brain a warm-up.
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You are more ready to absorb whatever
information is presented to you later when you
read.
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This means that, before you read, you need to
activate your knowledge about the subject
matter too.

6. Activating Prior Knowledge
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Prior knowledge is activated by:
1) Reading the key words of the questions
2) Scanning for a rough overview
Immediately after, write down:
3) your knowledge about the topic
4) what you wish to find out
This completes the pre-reading stage – a critical
warming-up phase performed to understand any
text completely.

7. Activating Prior Knowledge & KWL
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The process can be summed up in a reading
strategy called KWL and it represents:
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K – your knowledge, after reading the
question's key words and scanning
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W – what you wish to know, thinking about the
story you are about to read
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L – what you have learnt, recalling the major
facts of the story.

8. Activating Prior Knowledge
Ac