XCurr Inset Reading GCSE Examination Papers 30th'November, 2005'

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Wickersley School and Sports
College Reading and Writing
For GCSE

• Part 1 Reading
• The 4 types of reading
• Reading GCSE questions
• History
• Statistics
• PE
• Science

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• The Aim
• train you to be efficient at reading GCSE
  examinations papers
• The Promise
• everything here is common sense and easy
• using the ideas here will reduce the work

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Were you taught to read or write
• after you left primary school?

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Year 11
Reading GCSE Examination Papers
Spring, 2006.Do you know how to read this?
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Year 11 Reading
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• The one type of reading you were taught
• Continuous Reading
• left to right
• every word
• down the page
• absorbing the meaning as you go
• like watching a film

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Year 11 Reading
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Year 11 Reading
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• Practise reconstructing the text in your head.
  Good readers are constantly paying into and
  making withdrawals from, working, internal models
  of text.
• Turning the text over and think about it
• Think what happens in your head in terms of how
  you
• Picture
• Remember
• Bring in feelings

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Continuous Reading
• the only type you were taught
• assumed to be the only type there is
• really only used when reading for pleasure
• letters, beginnings of news articles,
• books you have chosen
• certainly not the only main type used in schools
  or society

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Skim Reading
• down the page
• for when you have to read something
• you only want the main ideas
• maybe time is limited
• you suspect that not all the detail matters

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Skim Reading one way
• read the first paragraph
• read the topic (first) sentences of the
  succeeding paragraphs
• read quotation, statistics etc.
• read as much of the conclusion as you need

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Year 11 Reading
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Year 11 Reading
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Year 11 Reading
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• Skimming
• can be done in different ways
• is an advanced skill
• probably a limited number of advanced
  applications
• is often done badly

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Scanning
• has arguably become the main type of reading used
  in society
• is widely used in schools
• you probably do it to some extent
• it is a skill that you need
• with thirty minutes practice you could become an
  expert scan reader

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Year 11 Reading
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• Scanning
• move in any direction
• pick up on any visual clues
• put the meaning together in your head

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Year 11 Reading
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Everyone knows how to scan a text for capital
letters, numbers, colours and bold text
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Year 11 Reading
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• From Radio Times
• Page18 31st December- 6th. January 2006
• Drama Round-Up
• And theres plenty more to come
• Life on Mars BBC1
• A rising police detective, Sam Tyler (John Simm)
  nearly dies in a car accident and wakes up in
  1973, where his new boss (Philip Glenister) is an
  unreformed copper of the old school.

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• From the Radio Times Page18 31st December- 6th.
  January 2006
• Drama Round-Up
• And theres plenty more to come
• Life on Mars BBC1
• A rising police detective, Sam Tyler (John Simm)
  nearly dies in a car accident and wakes up in
  1973, where his new boss (Philip Glenister) is an
  unreformed copper of the old school.
• My way BBC1- Sam Tyler- 1973- police detective-
  nearly dies- names of actors- title (which I then
  close read, by pausing a moment to realise it is
  a song title)

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Year 11 Reading
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• Scanning
• Tables and Spread Sheets
• is a common requirement

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Year 11 Reading
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• Close Reading
• often required
• for text that is dense and/ or difficult
• different people close-read different things

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Year 11 Reading
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• Not all close reading is hard
• Pictures are usually read by scan- and close-
  reading

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Close Reading
• is not necessarily harder than the other types,
  and can be learnt
• use with other types of reading
• move in any direction

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Year 11 Reading
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• Close Reading
• Alternate between two processes
• think logically break ideas down into
  constituent parts
• 2. import outside knowledge
• bring your own words to the text

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Year 11 Reading
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• Close Reading
• Misfits
• 67
• 45 17
• 89

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Year 11 Reading
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• Across
• 1. Emit in reverse after midday meal
• 3. About to sing, dear?
• Down
• 1. Look in Libra, Ryan!
• 2. Select planets revolution, we hear.

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Year 11 Reading
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• Four Types of Reading
• Continuous
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Close
• Use them together

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Year 11 Reading
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• Theory into practice
• Learn to use the four types of reading in
  sequences

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Year 11 Reading
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Work out the reading sequences for this history
paper
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Year 11 Reading
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Year 11 Reading
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• Frequently used reading sequence
• Close Read the question, highlighting key words
• Continuously Read underlining any important/
  difficult bits
• Close Read the question again
• Scan Read the passage again quickly
• Close Read any hard parts

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.How would you read this?
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Year 11 Reading
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A Head of Maths wrote
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Year 11 Reading
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2006.Why did a top PE candidate fail this easy
one?
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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• Science examiners word and set out their
  questions to help students.
• How is following question written to assist
  students?
• How should it be read?

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Year 11 Reading
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2006.

• (b) Scientists in America have cloned a mule.
• They took an egg cell from a horse and removed
  its chromosomes.
• They took the chromosomes from the body cell of a
  mule.
• They put them into the horse egg cell.
• The egg cell was put back into the horses womb
  where it grew into a mule.
• When the mule was born, it was a clone of the
  original mule.
• Sarah says it will be identical to the original
  mule when it grows up.
• Kate says it will be similar but not identical.
• Kate is correct.
• Write down one reason why it will be similar to
  the original mule
• Write down one reason why it will not be
  identical to the original mule.

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Year 11 Reading
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• (d) This part of the question is about ideas and
  evidence in science.
• The American scientists have published details of
  how they cloned the mule.
• This is important so that people in all parts of
  the world know about their work.
• Write down three reasons why scientific ideas
  like this need to be communicated to other
  people.
• ..
• .
• ..