OLC4O: Ontario School Literacy Course

Learning Goals (Read)

By the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Describe, orally and/or in writing, personally relevant texts you have read and the responses to them
• Write an information paragraph with a clear main idea and supporting details that is related to a specific audience
• Repeat the reading strategies in order to gather information from the article organize and paraphrase ideas
• Assess your writing by editing your written work
• Explain the purpose and uses of personal reflections

Are You Ready? (Read)

I know that I will be successful when I can:

• Write in my own words the main idea of the text with supporting details through the reading strategies process
• Assess my writing skills through the editing process

Action (Read and Take Notes)

Reading Strategies for Narrative and Informational Text.

• Before Reading Strategies
  • Skimming and Scanning
• During Reading Strategies
  • Ask questions
  • Understand the text
  • Make inferences
  • Visualize
  • Make connections
  • Think to read
  • Take good notes
• After Reading Strategies
  • Ask questions
  • Make connections

• Watch the "Reading Strategies" video located below and take notes.

Consolidation (Read)

• Write in my own words the main idea of the text with supporting details through the reading strategies process, and assess my writing skills through editing

Journal (Optional)

Pretend that you are a magazine writer and need to publish a story about the results of your reading strategies for a school paper. In colourful language write in a paragraph form your interpretation of the results.