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Text Types

Reading Strategies

1) A new game

ball games, Hocker

letter, rules

reading for specific information

2) What do you want to do with money?

honesty, reward

picture story, newspaper article

using titles, pictures, headlines to predict

3) Ghosts, grub and adventure

planning a trip

magazine article

reading speed

4) Lucky to be alive

adventure at sea

short story

reading for gist

5) Who made it first? Inventors and inventions.

inventions

magazine article

predicting, reading speed

6) The report of a young adventurer

jungle expedition

narrative report

predicting, guessing the meaning of new words, summarizing

7) Space travel

history of space travel

display panel

dealing with difficult ideas

8) Sports reports

sports

reports

guessing, predicting

9) We’re organizing a rescue.

mountain rescue

radio script

N/A

10) Farming

farming

geography textbook

intensive reading, linking words