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4.2.1 Intensive Reading
English · Grade 8 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Reading strategies: reading for main ideas and reading for details
- Underlining main ideas and details in consumer texts
- Mind maps and substitution tables of specific details
What you will be able to do
- identify reading strategies for use on given texts
- select main ideas and details from written texts
- acknowledge reading for main ideas and details as a comprehension skill
Key questions
“Why should one read for main ideas?”
“How can you improve your reading?”
Lessons
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Reading for the main idea
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizName the strategy, then underline the main idea in a consumer paragraph without circling every fact.
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Details, tables and a mind map
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizRead again for details, fill a substitution table, and complete a mind map of a consumer text.