READING TECHNIQUES
-Skimming
Questions:
- What are the animals that appear in the text?
- Children should read the text and then, they should match the mouse name with the corresponding mouse picture (Although, this activity is connecting with intensive reading technique).
-Scanning
Questions:
- What different kind of mice appear in the text?
- Match these informations with the corresponding mouse:
Dormouse . . They can climb very
well.
Harvest mouse . . They are popular pets.
House mouse . . They weigh six grams.
Jumping mouse . . They live for about three years.
Pygmy mouse . . They have long back
feet.
-Intensive reading
Questions:
- What is the favourite food of mice?
- Where do the mice live? …
- First: Children read the text; Second: The teacher asks some questions about the text.
- Task: Completing a table:
Mice weight features food
Pygmy mouse
Jumping mouse
House mouse
Harvest mouse
Dormouse
-Predicting
Questions:
- Before reading, teacher asks some questions, like: What do you think that these mice eat or live and so on.
We think that with these activities you can understand and learning the different reading techniques.
Irene Casanova Peño y
Sara Murillo Marques
