Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading Comprehension Strategies_Y8

Good strategies for understanding texts in a foreign language

Open Ended

Which strategies would you consider using when reading a text in a foreign language?

Multiple Select

Mark all the strategies that can help you make predictions about a content of a text.

• Looking at the pictures or illustrations.

• Reading the title (heading) and subtitle (sub-heading).

• It isn't possible to predict the content of a text.

• Reading the whole text is the only way of making predictions.

• Looking for unknown words on the dictionary or reading the glossary of the text.

Predicting

Read the title, the subtitle, and look at the pictures. What is this text talking about?

GLOSSARY

Take a look at the text glossary to check the meaning of some words found in the article.

Questioning

Formulating questions can be a difficult and complex task.

However, when you need to think of a question, you read with more awareness and purpose. 

Open Ended

Write a question related to the article "No more Fish 'n' chips?". Let's read it and try to answer your question at the end.

Fish 'n' chips: Intermediate level English resource.

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Open Ended

Summarizing.

How would you summarize this article? Write a paragraph or two about it, remember to use keywords from the text.

Poll

What did you think about this article? How about the class?

• I didn't understand the text, neither the class.

• I really enjoyed the activity and the text.

• I liked the class, but not the text.

• I liked the text, but I didn't like the class.

• I have no opinion about it.