Reading Skills

READING SKILLS

SPM Practice

For this lesson, you will:

• Learn about the skills use in reading by watching YouTube videos

• Answer questions on context clues

Useful reading skills for SPM reading paper

• understanding main points

• Understand specific details and information

• Guess meaning from context using clues and signal words

• Recognize writer's attitude or opinion in a text

Understanding main points and specific details

Watch the YouTube video in the next slide

Guess meaning from context using clues and signal words

Watch the YouTube video in the next slide

Types of Context Clues and Signal Words

Study the notes carefully

Remember! Context clues and signal words are important to help you guess the meaning of words in the text.

Practice

- Read the sentences

- Choose the correct meaning for the underlined words.

- Choose the context clues.

Multiple Select

The debris on the stadium floor included numerous paper cups, ticket stubs and cigarettes butts.

• products

• papers

• trash

• Context clue: example

• Context clue: synonym

Multiple Select

Although Alex usually looks unkempt, he had a very neat appearance at his job interview

• casual

• messy

• orderly

• Context clues: antonym or contrast

• Context clues: synonym

Multiple Select

After the heavy rain, the river became murky; you couldn't see the bottom

• cloudy

• deep

• clear

• Context clues: cause and effects

• Context clues: Synonyms

Multiple Select

I'm looking for a unique gift for my brother; he appreciates peculiar things

• ordinary

• unusual

• typical

• Context clues: synonyms

• Context clues: comparison

Multiple Select

There are plenty of well-known bistros in Kuala Terengganu including Pok Mat Café and Delight Bakery

• shops

• takeaways

• restaurants

• Context clues: synonyms

• Context clues: example

Multiple Select

Our softball team's captain has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly thirteen warm-up pitches and never wearing socks

• unique

• strange

• excellent

• Context clues: example

• Context clues: cause and effects