Fiction reading skills
I can apply effective reading skills to an unseen fiction text.
Fiction reading skills
I can apply effective reading skills to an unseen fiction text.
Lesson details
Key learning points
- We can use context to help us make predictions about the text.
- We can use other words in the sentence to help us clarify meaning of words or sentences you do not understand.
- Considering the questions that arise as we read and looking for hints at the answers, deepens our understanding.
- To demonstrate our comprehension, we need to be able to summarise what we have read.
- Picking out relevant quotes can demonstrate our comprehension of a text.
Common misconception
When we read something for the first time, we are able to take in all of the important information.
We may need to read something over and over again to fully comprehend it. Using active reading strategies can also help us to fully engage with a new text.
Keywords
Comprehend - to understand something completely
Decode - to discover the meaning of
Context - background information that helps something to be fully understood
Perspective - a point of view
Genre - a style or category of art, music or literature
Equipment
You will need a copy of the beginning of Chapter 1 of 'After Dark' by Haruki Murakami for this lesson.
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of upsetting content
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
to declare what you think will happen based on available evidence
to make more clear and comprehensible
to provide the key ideas about something
first person
second person
third person
Exit quiz
6 Questions
The city is dangerous.
The city is busy.
The city is ominous.