Reading
Demonstrate a range of reading techniques, to include skimming, scanning, in-depth study, identifying key points, extracting information, evaluating bias and purpose.
Extract the main facts, ideas, issues and opinions from a variety of aural and written sources, to include spoken and written media texts and material relevant to a vocational area.
Read, date and sign Assessment Brief 4 in your Workbook
A. READING 1: READING & SUMMARISING
1. Read A Short Guide to The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005. .Click below for the summary version.
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2. Describe the key components of this legislation, in summary form.
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3. Complete the activities in your Workbook to show your understanding of The Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005.
a) Download the Health & Safety at Work Questionnaire below. Answer the questions and discuss the answers in your group. (You may need to conduct some research on the Internet.)
b) Look through the slides below. In your Workbook, fill in the table, naming each hazard on each page.
B. READING 2: EXTRACTING INFORMATION
1. Read the main points of these Acts. Download and read the slides on the website:
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The Consumer Information Act, 1978.
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The Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Act 1980
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You can download the notes below to read them and extract information.
(They will open in Powerpoint.)
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2. Also, read the summarised information in your Workbook.
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3. Complete the exercises in your Workbook.
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4. For more information, click here:
C. READING 3: SCANNING A TEXT
1. Read the blog ​in your Workbook: Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, say scientists...
2. Answer the questions in your Workbook.
D. READING 4: IN-DEPTH STUDY OF A POEM
1. Read the poem The Wild Swans At Coole in your Workbook.
2. Answer the questions in your Workbook.
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"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review. It was written during a period when Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park.
William Butler Yeats
E. READING 5: STUDYING & EVALUATING A TEXT
1. Read the short play ‘A Doll’s House’ by Henrik Ibsen.
2. You can read it online or download it from Project Gutenberg.
3. Read the play as a group together. Act out parts of the play.
4. Discuss the questions in your group as you complete each act.
5. Then answer the questions on your own.
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6. Watch A Doll's House, which is based on the Ibsen Play:
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READING 6: IDENTIFYING KEY POINTS
1. Skim read the article Food Trends in 2017 in your Workbook.
2. Write the key words in your Workbook.
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3. Look at the slideshow below. Which slides do NOT represent the food trends in 2017?
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G. READING 7: EVALUATING A TV SCRIPT
Read the Catherine Tate Comic Relief Transcript. It is also in your Workbook.
You can watch the skit on the right.
Act it out as a group.
Complete the exercises in your Workbook.
H. READING 8: BIAS & FACT IN A JOB ADVERT
1. Read the job advertisement carefully - in your Workbook.
2. Create a key to show which sections/sentences/words are fact and which are opinion or biased. (Example: You can use a colour code with highlighters or you could use a letter key – it’s up to you!)
3. Go to the website Student News Daily. Choose a news story and answer the questions about the biased news article. Print the questions and include with your answers in your Portfolio.
4. For further reading, read the blog Fact, Fiction, or Opinion? Evaluating Online Information.
5. Try a few online exercises on bias, fact or opinions. Include at least one answered exercise with your Portfolio.
I.READING 9: READING INTRUCTIONS
Read and follow the instructions in your Workbook.
How well did you read?
J. READING 10: PURPOSE OF TEXTS
1.One of Aesop’s fables is in your Workbook; it is one you have probably heard. Read it silently to yourself.
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2. Write the purposes of the texts in your Workbook.
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3. Look through the slides below. Discuss in your group what the purpose of each text might be.
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