Unit 4

How Do Games Influence People?

Reader's Notebook

Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware!

Pages 12 and 13 in Literacy in Action 5B.


The three reading strategies you have been using to make meaning of opinions are using what you know, visualizing, and synthesizing. You will practise using these strategies when you read Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware!

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All reading strategies are connected.


For example, when you use what you know, you often ask questions - you are using two reading strategies together. (Asking questions is a reading strategy you have practiced in previous units). Good readers choose strategies that will best help them - they work with more than one strategy at a time. You will be using what you know and visualizing at the same time when you read this article.

Preview Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware!, on pages 12 and 13 of Literacy in Action 5B by reading the title and looking at the visuals and captions.

Fill in the chart - Question 1 - in the Before Reading section on the Reader’s Notebook: Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware! worksheet and then answer Question 2.




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Remember, as you read you should

  • use what you know about the topic
  • visualize: use details to imagine the event
  • synthesize: put ideas together (how does the new information fit in with what I already know?)

You are going to be reading this selection one paragraph at a time in order to get a complete list of the main ideas of this opinion selection.


Read the first paragraph on page 12 of Literacy in Action 5B. This is the introductory paragraph that tells you the main idea of the entire selection. On the Reader’s Notebook: Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware! page, write down the main idea of the paragraph, and one detail that surprised you.

Continue to fill in the During Reading chart by providing the main idea and one detail that surprised you for each of the five paragraphs.

Once you have written down the main idea and one detail that surprised you for each paragraph, answer the last question in the During Reading section on the Reader’s Notebook: Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware! worksheet.

Reread each paragraph, trying to visualize what the author is describing to help increase your understanding of the selection.
Answer the After Reading question on the Reader’s Notebook: Have Your Say! - Internet Games: Fun but Be Aware! worksheet.

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