Think Like a Reader
Completion requirements
Unit 4
How Do We Express Ourselves?
Reading Strategies
What do effective readers do to understand what they are reading?
Information on page 9 of Literacy in Action 6B provides strategies to help you understand what you read. A strategy is a plan or process you can practise to comprehend meaning in opinion pieces.
Read information in each of the following categories to determine how well you understood the previous opinion pieces.
Reader's Notebook: Think Like a Reader
Think back to the opinion pieces that you read on the websites that you chose.
Answer these questions in your Reader's Notebook: Think Like a Reader.
- Why do we read other people's opinions?
- What do we learn by doing so?
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- Select "Adobe Reader".
- Click "OK".
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Crack the Code
Specialized language is often used by writers when they write about issues and topics. You will practise strategies to help you understand this kind of language in the next selections.
Make Meaning
When reading opinion pieces, good readers use specific reading strategies:
- Use what you know: Look at the text features (title, visuals) and ask yourself: What do I know about this topic?
- Visualize: While reading, imagine the event or situation.
- Synthesize: Put the ideas together and ask yourself: How does this opinion and information compare to what I already know or believe?
You will practise these reading strategies as you go through the next selections.
Analyze What You've Read
When you finish reading a selection, take time to analyze it. Think about the author's opinion and point of view and any bias (an opinion that always favours one way of looking at something) the author may have presented.