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Hitting the booksPreparing students for Skillful university reading
Lindsay Warwick
How can we develop Skillful readers?
What reading skills did you use?
Skimming Identifying an argument
Identifying main idea Assessing the logic of an argument
Identifying supporting points Evaluating sources
Recognising tone Previewing/Questioning
Identifying fact vs opinion Identifying persuasion techniques
Identifying humour Vocabulary related to context
Making inferences Recognising bias
Identifying the author’s purpose Identifying cause and effect
Identifying the author’s position Recognising text structure
Inferring criticism Identifying the source
Finding similarities Finding differences
Developing key reading skills
Social scientists have studied the effect of winning a national football championship in the U.S. on the fans of the winning team. They have found that fans have more self-confidence and feel more competent, probably because team victories reflect well on their personal sense of identity. When people feel more competent, they perform better at work and are more likely to earn and spend more money (Coats and Humphreys, 2002, The economic impact of postseason play in professional sports). Experts say that for these reasons, it is likely that a winning team may have a positive influence on the economy of a city.
Skillful Reading & Writing 3 p11
Developing key reading skills
Social scientists have studied the effect of winning a national football championship in the U.S. on the fans of the winning team. They have found that fans have more self-confidence and feel more competent, probably because team victories reflect well on their personal sense of identity. When people feel more competent, they perform better at work and are more likely to earn and spend more money (Coats and Humphreys, 2002, The economic impact of postseason play in professional sports). Experts say that for these reasons, it is likely that a winning team may have a positive influence on the economy of a city.
Concluding sentence
Topic sentence
Fact vs opinion: language
according to
demonstrate
believe
viewdiscover
claim
suspect
argue
confirm
show
good, better, bestseems
Fact or opinion?1. Two billion people watched the World Cup opener.
2. I would argue that footie players are overpaid and underworked.
3. It is often assumed that footie fans are only male.
4. Researchers have recently discovered that the Chinese invented football.
5. According to the dictionary, the word soccer comes from the word association.
Be an active reader!
Previewing
• Title, subtitles, section headings
• Photos and captions
• What is it?
• Where is it from?
• Who is the intended audience?
• What do you think it will say?
• What do you need from the text?
• What can you learn from the article?
Questioning
• What three questions do you want answers to?
• What question do you have during or after every paragraph?
Annotate!
Questioning
Social scientists have studied the effect of winning a national football championship in the U.S. on the fans of the winning team. They have found that fans have more self-confidence and feel more competent, probably because team victories reflect well on their personal sense of identity. When people feel more competent, they perform better at work and are more likely to earn and spend more money (Coats and Humphreys, 2002, The economic impact of postseason play in professional sports). Experts say that for these reasons, it is likely that a winning team may have a positive influence on the economy of a city.
Skillful Reading & Writing 3 p11
Being an active note-taker
Fans of winning team feel more confident & competent better work, salary, spending.
likely that succ. teams more succ. city environment.
Being an active note-taker
Fans of winning team feel more confident & competent better work, salary, spending.
Likely that succ. teams more succ. city economy.
Reviewing
• What did you learn?
• What questions do you have?
• What do you need to do next?
Developing critical readers
What is an argument?
Developing critical readers
An argument is:
A statement of opinion + reasons/evidence
An argument must:
be based on reasonable assumptions
lead to logical conclusions
not be flawed
Assessing an argument
Is the argument logical? Based on unreasonable assumptions?Is there enough evidence to support the argument?
Is the source of any evidence reliable, relevant, current?
Skillful Reading & Writing 4 p71
Assessing an argument
Is this really true?
Skillful Reading & Writing 4 p71
Reasonable assumption? No evidence.
Evidence?
Developing vocabulary skills
Academic Keyword List
(University of Louvain)
Academic Word List
(Averil Coxhead)
englishvocabularyexercises.com/awl
quizlet.com
Engaging students
• Images
• Text snippets
• Quizzes
• Brainstorms
• Ranking
• Puzzles
• Sounds
• Debates
What’s the text about?
What’s the text about?
wordle.net
What’s this about?
“Through her years of research, Sherry Turkle has noticed that these permit us to
have complete control over our friendships.”
OR
There is one element of social networking that is deeply worrying and that is...
Skillful Reading & Writing 4 p10
Say the colour, not the word!
Thank you!
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