ESL 078 SP14 Week 4

Reading StrategiesScanning, Parts of Speech, Suffixes

Homework

• Pp. 46, 47 – SWSBTS, summary and vocabulary• Pp. 67 – 69 – Vocabulary: Word forms• Pp. 126 - 127 – Reading Strategy: scanning

Adjective Noun Verb Adverb Other

Treatment

Case

Director

Get along

Fail

concerned Concern(ed) Past tense

Limit Limit

Effect effect

Report Report

Receive

p. 112

• Root (stem) • suffix

When to Scan

• When you have a specific question or piece of information you’re looking for,

• When you’re scanning, you usually are looking for a specific piece of information or have a question you need answered by a piece of text.

• How? To scan information, look for text features that are important nouns and adjectives (content words)

When to Skim

• To get the gist (general idea) of written material, reading quickly (accelerated reading).

• Do when we don’t have a lot of time for a deeper reading but they still need to know what is being said in a particular piece of writing.

• How? Read first sentence and last sentence of each paragraph, or read the first paragraph and the last paragraph of a longer text.