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4.2.1 Intensive Reading
English · Grade 7 · 2 lessons in the design
What this covers
- Reading strategies: reading for the main idea and reading for details
- Underlining main ideas and details in texts on gender and leadership
- Mind maps and substitution tables to organise what a paragraph says
What you will be able to do
- discuss the identified reading strategies
- select main ideas and details from a variety of written texts
- acknowledge the importance of reading for main idea and details as a comprehension skill
Key questions
“How can you improve your reading?”
Lessons
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Reading for the main idea and for details
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizIntensive reading uses two tools: find the sentence the paragraph is about, then collect the examples that support it.
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Mind maps and tables of details
40 min · 1 practice tasks · quizPut the main idea in the centre of a map, hang details on branches, and fill a substitution table from the text.