13.2.1 Intensive Reading: Comprehension Strategies

• Passages on road safety, types of roads, and agencies such as KeNHA, KeRRA, KURA
• Strategies: key ideas, visualise, infer, factual vs inferential questions, paraphrase summary
• Retell a section with a peer

• identify key ideas from a passage
• summarise key ideas from a passage
• create mental images from the events in a passage
• deduce the meaning of words from context
• respond to factual and inferential questions correctly from the passage
• acknowledge the importance of comprehension strategies in effective reading

“What is the importance of reading a passage?”

“What makes people write passages?”

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1. Key ideas, pictures, inferences
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   On a road-safety or agency paragraph: state the key idea, visualise, infer a word, answer one factual and one inferential question.
2. Summarise and retell a travel passage
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Paraphrase key ideas in a few lines, retell a section with a peer, and say why the writer wrote it.