how to read the question
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How to read exam questions and texts
Highlighting key words in a text such as an exam question or newspaper article in order to better understand it.
Skills development
Why read quickly.What information to notice.3 ways to improve our understanding.
Two skills: Skimming & ScanningSkimming: quick reading for gist.(Say what the text is about.)Read the titles & subtitles.Read the introductory paragraph.
Quick reading for key words.Read and highlight nouns and verbs.
Scanning
Explaining the main ideas of the text.
● Read quickly● Highlighting● How highlighting
helps
● Skimming ● Scanning
● Use hash tag to plan/organise thoughts How 2 RTQ
● Nouns
● Explain in own words
● Try it yourself ● Verbs