Reading Strategy - Finding the Topic Sentence

A.     Main idea of the entire passage may be found in the introduction and in the conclusion.
B.     In the other paragraphs, the main idea or topic sentence is usually the first sentence. 

make either note or highlight on topic sentence as you read. 

Reading Strategy - Using Color

Preview = find topic, identify heading, observe pictures.  

Highlighting the important information in a reading that helps to read and remember quickly. Use bright color highlighter.

A. Don't highlight too much.

B. Use one color for main ideas.

C. Use another color for the details. 

D. Highlight key words, not entire sentence. 

 

Meaning of Context Reading strategy

Meaning from context: Using the next sentence 

A. Many words can be more than one part of speech.

B. Use the sentence to determine which part of speech you need for the correct definition. 

1. Guess the meaning of new words when you can.
2. You don't always have to understand a word exactly.
3. Sometimes you will look up word in the dictionary. 
4. Sometimes you don't need to worry about meaning. 

PART OF SPEECH : READING STRATEGY

WHILE reading you have to know about part of speech.

One word has different meaning, so have to conform what the word, sentence, context are saying .
 Ex: Look in  dictionary 

NOUN: person, place, things, idea
VERB: action /
ADJECTIVE: describing word noun ex: red car
ADVERB: describing word verb, adjective adverb ex:
PREPOSION:locatin, time etc.
CONJUCTION: join word

Previewing for Topics

1.  Topic : the subject of a reading 
2. Most reading have one main topic and several sub-topics.
3. Before reading look over: 1) picture and the Captions 2) the heading   3) new vocabulary (sometimes in bold)

BEFORE READING: MAKE SAMLL GROUP DISCUSSION

WHILE reading you have to know about part of speech.

NOUN: person, place, things, idea
VERB: action /
ADJECTIVE: describing word noun ex: red car
ADVERB: describing word verb, adjective adverb ex:
PREPOSION:locatin, time etc.
CONJUCTION: join word

READING STRATEGY 

Idioms

    A. A phrase that has a different meaning form the meaning of each individual word.

B. Try to figure out the meaning of an idiom from context. 

Example:

Top Dog : best person in a group. 

Cash cow: a dependable source of income.  

Newspaper Feature Stories

In first paragraph : who? what? where? when?
In second paragraph: How? Why?



What is Feature Stories??
May contain more controversial language such as idioms, writer's opinion. The main idea is not always in the first paragraph.

A. A paragraph frequently consists of only one sentence.
B. 2 distinct styles - hard news articles (found in the first page and the rest of section A)- feature Stories(may contain writers opinions, use controversial language ).


Hard news Storie

• contain facts no opinion 
• main idea is in the first paragraph 
• frist paragraph usually answers the question : who? what? where? when?

Feature stories 

• may contain the writer's opinion 
• main idea may not be in the paragraph
• uses more controversial langauge