Contents

Unit Reading Strategy Comprehension Skill Text Types Page

Surveying Identify Text Types• contentspage

• story2

Asking Questions RephrasingSkill• riddle

• comic6

Skimming LookforMainIdeas• conversation

• advertisement10

Scanning IdentifyStoryElements

• letter

• postcard

• searchdirectories

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Applying Knowledge VisualisationSkill

• recipe

• newsletter

• poster

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Detailed Reading InferenceSkill

• review

• productinformation

• poem

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ProgressChecklist 32

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Hi, there. Let me explain to you why you need to ask questions.

Asking questions about the text gives you more clues about what you’re going to read.

Sometimes, you need to re-word some words and phrases so that they are easier to understand. We call this rephrasing.

e.g. Jim hates doing homework. ➜ Jim does not like to do homework.

Let’s go to the Warm-Up Lap to practise this. Cara will show you how.

Asking Questions2

Strategy

Hello. It’s me, Carl.

Good job with surveying. I’m sure you are now an expert at identifying text types.

Now, let’s go on to asking questions. Carlton will explain more.

What is asking questions?

Sample

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Date:

It’s me, Cara. Let’s practise asking questions by doing riddles!

Here’s what you can ask yourself: Can we re-write the riddle to make it easier to understand?

Which of the options cannot be possible?

Warm-up Lap

How to ask questions

Read the riddle. Answer the Yes / No questions and solve the riddle.

1. What flies around all day, but never goes anywhere?

• Whatfliesaroundallday,butnevergoesanywhere?

• Whatalwaysflies,butalwaysstaysinthesameplace?

A. B. C.

How about if we change this …

to this?

A. A bird? What always flies, Yes / No

butalwaysstaysinthesameplace? Yes/No

B. A house? What always flies, Yes / No

butalwaysstaysinthesameplace? Yes / No

C. A flag? What always flies, Yes / No

butalwaysstaysinthesameplace? Yes / No

The answer to the riddle is

Sample

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comic

Time TrialYou now have 2 minutes to survey the comic and answer Question 1 on the next page.00:02:00

Practice Lap

The Adventures of Environ-Man

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I am Environ-Man.I use my

superpowers to protect the environment.

I have one enemy. Her name is ‘The

Wasteful Witch’.

I am The Wasteful Witch – I

leave rubbish everywhere I

go.

Look at all this beautiful rubbish! Oh no! So much rubbish! The Wasteful Witch has

won this time!

Sample

Pre-readingtopic

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Answer the time trial question.

1. Putaticknexttothequestionsthatyouthinkthecomicwillhelpyouanswer.

(Youmaychoosemorethanone.)

a WhatclothesdoesEnviron-Manwear?

b WhenisEnviron-Man’sbirthday?

c WhatdoesEnviron-Manliketoeat?

d WhatdoesEnviron-Mando?

e WhoisEnviron-Man’senemy?

Now read the comic again and answer the remaining questions.

2. WhatdoesEnviron-Mando?

A. catchesrobbers B. fightspollution

C. fightstheenvironment D. worksforthewitch

3. WhoistheenemyofEnviron-Man?

A. TheWastefulWitch

B. The Rubbish Wizard

C. TheWitchfromMars

D. The Wizard of Waffles

4. WhatdoesEnviron-Man’senemylove?

A. Environ-Man B. theenvironment

C. recycling D. rubbish

5. Whatistheendingofthecomic?

A. Environ-Manandhisenemybecamefriends.

B. Environ-Man’senemyruledtheplanet.

C. Environ-Manlostthisbattle.

D. Environ-Manbeathisenemy.

Sample

Post-readingactivity

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Progress ChecklistProgress Checklist

Tick (3) the things that you can do.

Unit 1

Icangetinformationusingthelayoutofatext.

Icanquicklyidentifythecorrecttexttype.

Unit 2

Icanaskusefulquestionsaboutatext.

Icanre-wordsomedifficultphrasestounderstandthemmoreeasily.

Unit 3

IcanskimthroughatexttofindtheimportantwordsbeforeIreadit.

Icanfindoutthemainideasofatext.

Unit 4

Icanlookforspecificwordsorphrasesinatext.

Icanfindthestoryelementsinatext.

Unit 5

Icanapplymyknowledgetoanswerquestionswhilereading.

Icancreateapictureinmymindwhilereading.

Unit 6

Icanfullyunderstandallthedetailsofatext.

Icangettheanswersbyfindingthehintsandcluesinatext.

Sample