PATHWAYS 2 READING UNIT 5 National Geographic, Heinle CENGAGE Learning Elizabeth Celeste Coiman-Lopez, BAT, MS. Houston Community College, School of Continuing Education

READING STRATEGIES Unit 5 READING STRATEGIES 2 RULES: 1.Scanning: p For repeated words can help you predict what a passage is about. 2.Use Key Words: p. 91 and p. 94 a.In questions, especially nouns and noun phrases, to help you scan for the most relevant parts of a text.

CRITICAL THINKING FOCUS Unit 5 CRITICAL THINKING FOCUS 3 RULES: 1.Applying Information: p In a new way can help you internalize it more easily. 2.For example, using the loci method yourself will help you understand and remember how it works. 2.Apply: p The information you read to words you know. 2.Think of other words that have ie or ei. 3.Do those words follow the spelling rule?

Unit 5 - p. 88 READING SKILL : IDENTIFYING CAUSE AND EFFECT 4 RULES : 1.CAUSE : is something that makes another event happen. (reason, because) 2.EFFECT : the result of the event. (result) –If you think of a very familiar place, and visualize certain things in that place, you can keep those things in your memory for a long time. 3.Recognizing the cause and effect of a passage, will help you understand it better. 4.Sometimes you can find the cause and effect by certain connecting or signal words. –becausesoifthen Thereforeas a resultverb + -ing We don’t have to remember phone numbers now because we can store them on smartphones. I enter my password three times a day, so I remember it easily.