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3.2.1 Reading: Information and Meaning
English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Reading for information versus reading for meaning
- Text features: title, subtitles, lists; scanning a hygiene or safety text
- Inferring the meaning of words and phrases from context
What you will be able to do
- distinguish between reading for information and reading for meaning
- infer the meaning of words and phrases from varied texts
- appreciate the importance of reading for information and meaning
Key questions
“How would you tell the meaning of a word in a passage?”
Lessons
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Reading for information and for meaning
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizScan titles and lists for facts. Then ask what those facts are telling you to do or believe.
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Inferring meaning from the passage
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizGuess a new word from the words around it, then test the guess in a new sentence.