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Lesson3 Academic Reading Strategies

This lesson focuses on academic learning strategies, particularly reading and summarizing techniques for academic writing. Students will learn to identify reading strategies, evaluate their reading purposes, and summarize various academic texts using different techniques. Key summarizing methods include the 'Somebody Wanted But So Then' technique, the SAAC method, and the 5 W's and 1 H approach.

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Lesson3 Academic Reading Strategies

This lesson focuses on academic learning strategies, particularly reading and summarizing techniques for academic writing. Students will learn to identify reading strategies, evaluate their reading purposes, and summarize various academic texts using different techniques. Key summarizing methods include the 'Somebody Wanted But So Then' technique, the SAAC method, and the 5 W's and 1 H approach.

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Lesson 3:

Academic
Learning
Strategies
English for
Academic and
Professional
Purposes
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, students should be
able to:
identify the different reading strategies as
tool in academic writing;
evaluate one’s purpose for reading; and
uses knowledge of text structure to glean
information he/she needs.
Let’s Contractions,
Recall! relative clauses
Formal and
without a relative
informal
pronoun and
language
ellipses

are associated with


are more common in
particular choices of
informal language
grammar and
vocabulary
What are the different
Reading Strategies?

Strategies differ from


reader to reader.
Why did the
author write
this?
 to inform
 to persuade
 to entertain
What are the Purposes of Reading?

o to scan
o to skim
o to relate new content to
existing knowledge
o To write something
o To critique an argument
o To learn something
o For general comprehension
● Establish purpose for

Before reading

Reading ● Speculate about the


author’s purpose for writing

● Review what you already


know

● Preview the text

● Predict the contents of the


text and pose questions
about it

● Note any discussion


questions that have been
provided
Use headings
During and transition
Reading words
Create a
Annotate and
vocabulary and
mark sections of
try to infer
the text
unfamiliar words

Check your
predictions and Connect the
find answers to text and take a
posed questions break
After
Reading
Identify and
Summarize the reread difficult
text in your own parts of the text
words

Define words on
Talk to someone
your vocabulary
about the author’s
ideas
At the end of the lesson, the
Various leaners shall be able to:
Techniques in
Define summarizing and
Summarizing a summary from various
Variety of writers
Academic Texts Identify the various
techniques in
summarizing; and

Lesson Summarize various


4 academic texts.
What is
summarizing?
Reducing text “simply,
briefly, and

Clearly articulating accurately”.


Condensed

Thesis version

Main ideas most


important facts or ideas
short and clear
form
Did You
Know According to Diane
This? Hacker,summarizing
involves stating a work’s
thesis “simply, briefly, and
accurately.
According to Buckley,
summarizing is reducing
text to its original size,
clearly articulating the From dictionaries, it is
author’s meaning and defined as taking a lot of
retaining main ideas. information and creating a
condensed version.
Various Techniques
Present information through
in summarizing a facts, skills and concept in
variety of academic visual formats.
texts
Read the
work first to
understand Know the main points and
the author’s the supporting details
intent.

Analyze the text to save


time in thinking what you
will do.
Various Techniques
in summarizing a Organize all ideas.
variety of academic
texts
Think what Write down all information in a
information you coherent and precise form
will put in your
summary
Represent information through
using dimensional
Restating the constructions
words into
different one.
Do a paraphrasing.
Another 5 Easy
Techniques in
Summarizing
Various Academic
Texts
Technique 1:
Somebody
Wanted But so Technique 4:
then First, Then,
Finally
Technique 2: SAAC
METHOD (State, Assign,
Action, Complete) Technique 5:
Give Me the Gist
Technique 3:5 W’s, 1H
Technique 1: Somebody
Wanted But so then
Technique 2: SAAC
METHOD (State, Assign,
Action, Complete)

STATE
ASSIGN
ACTION
COMPLETE
Technique 3:5 W’s, 1H
Technique 4:
First, Then, Finally
Technique 4:
First, Then, Finally
Technique 5:
Give Me the Gist
When summarizing is useful?

It is useful in many types of


writing and at different
points in the writing
process. It is used to
support an argument,
provide context for a
paper’s thesis, write
literature reviews and

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