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strategies; describe the similarities and differ- ences in the way they read an incident report and a short story)
Teacher prompts: “How did previewing the vocabulary and talking about unfamiliar words affect your reading of the report?” “Explain to a peer how you used context clues in the story to figure out an unfamiliar word.” “What strategies do you use to remember what you read?”
Interconnected Skills
4.2 identify several of their skills in listening, speaking, writing, viewing, and representing and explain how the skills help them read more effectively (e.g., write a journal entry
explaining how viewing a film adapted from a novel affected their understanding of that novel)
Teacher prompts: “Did seeing the movie help you understand the plot and characters of the novel better, or in a different way?” “How does making summary notes about a story help to increase your understanding?” “How does creating a visual representation of the information in a text help you under- stand the information?”
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