Skills and Strategies for enjoying reading

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Skills and Strategies for enjoying reading
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What can I learn?

• Vocabulary
• Spelling
• Sentence structure
• Grammar

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Selecting Your Book

• Choose a book you will enjoy
• Choose a book thats the right level (your
  level1, Krashen, S.)
• only about 1 unknown word per paragraph

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Question 1

• 1. Why should you try to read whole paragraphs
  without stopping to check the meaning of words.
• ANSWER at end of seminar

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Question 2

• What should you do if you dont know the meaning
  of a word?

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Reading Strategy

• Filter out unimportant unknown words
• Guess words from context
• Guess words by recognizing word parts
• Guess based on conjunctions
• Use a dictionary (when you cant guess, or to
  check your guess is correct)

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1. Skip/filter words

• I grew up in Hastings, New Zealand.
• We can guess Hastings is a place in New Zealand.
  It probably doesnt matter exactly where.

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• I have a meeting with Professor Klume

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2. Establish context to guess words

• I didnt have time for lunch or dinner, I feel
  famished .
• ? What does famished mean?
• (This is the most useful way to learn new words!)
• a. Place
• b. People involved
• c. Relationship between people

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3a. Guess by recognizing parts of the word

• We know what a bicycle is therefore
• Uni 1 so a unicycle is a ________________.
• Tri 3 so a tricycle is a _________________.
• Can you guess the meaning of bi?

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3b Compound Words

• If you think about the meaning of the individual
  words that make up the compound word you may be
  able to guess the meaning.
• a. Handbag
• b. Firefly
• c. Redhead
• D. Keyhole

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handbag
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firefly
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redhead
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keyhole
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5 Conjunctions Conjunctions show how
information is related.

• My wifes paintings are beautiful however, mine
  are grotesque!
• b. Mike is very gregarious, or outgoing.
• c. Mike is very gregarious, but his wife is very
  introverted

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Back to question 1

• 1. Why should you try to read a whole paragraph
  without stopping to check the meaning of words

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Reading Strategy

• Filter out unimportant unknown words
• Guess words from context
• Guess words by recognizing word parts
• Guess based on conjunctions
• Use a dictionary (when you cant guess, or to
  check your guess is correct)

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7 results for goal

• 1.the result or achievement toward which effort
  is directed aim end.
• 2.the terminal point in a race.
• 3.a pole, line, or other marker by which such a
  point is indicated.
• 4.an area, basket, cage, or other object or
  structure toward or into which players of various
  games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or
  drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or
  points.
• 5.the act of throwing, carrying, kicking,
  driving, etc., a ball or puck into such an area
  or object.
• 6.the score made by this act.

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Questions?
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