
Reading Skills:
Knowing the reading skills is one of the most important parts of this course. They give us skills for understanding what we read. So far we have studied two reading skill. First, to help us guess or infer word meaning from context. And second, to find the meaning of complex sentences through finding the main clause (SVO).
Context Clues to Word Meaning
Page 1-2
Understanding Sentences
Page 95-96

Reading Skills
The reading skills will be the primary skills that we study this semester. It is very important you learn these skills well. They will be very important through our course and on the final exam. We will study three reading skills throughout this semester. Today, we will begin with the first one.
Context Clues to Word Meaning
Open your textbook to Pages 1-2, and read the entire article.


Now that you have finished reading the article, go ahead and watch this video about the first reading skills: Context Clues to Word Meaning.
Teacher Gordan will help us look at the reading skill.

Reading Skill #2: Understanding Sentences
Turn to pages 95-96. This article is called "Understanding Sentences".
You are going to read this article, but before you do, just be aware that this skill (like all the reading skills) is very important for you. And these will be an important part of your exam as well.
Now, go ahead and read Understanding Sentences. After you have read the article, you can go on to the instructional video.


Please note that this is on pages 95-96 of your textbook. Ignore the page numbers given in the video.












