1D Improving Communities

1D Improving Communities

Quality of life

Open Ended

1. How does PLOGGING improve a community?

2. What other things can people do to improve their community?

​Reading Strategy: Scanning

​Scanning involves looking at all or part of a text quickly to find specific details. It differs from skimming, which involves looking for main ideas. An easy way to remember the difference is that skimming includes m and i, which are the first letters of the words main idea. Generally, when you scan you should be looking for specific ideas, words, numbers, and other information rather than trying to read and understand the text as a whole.

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

1. The names of more than one company.

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

2. The names of towns and cities. (more than one)

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

3. . The names of people who started a trend. (more than one)

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

4. A description of a new kind of exercise

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

5. Ways to measure a city’s quality of life.

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

6. Some types of food that people are growing.

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Scan the text. In which paragraph(s) do you find the following information?

7. The number of groups doing something