Guided practice activity 3
Check your answers in the Answer Key in Appendix 1. Score your results and consider
these questions:
- Could I complete the questions for each text? Why or why not?
- How many questions did I get right per text?
- How long did I need per text?
- Which type of text or question did I make most errors on? Why?
- What could I do differently next time?
The following activities give you further guided practice in applying the skills of skimming and scanning and distinguishing main ideas from details before you go on to the next set of exam practice readings. You also work with two more question types here.
Matching statements
Your understanding of main ideas and details is also tested through a matching activity where you identify which sections match statements in a list. The statements are paraphrases of the main ideas or details in each section.
What do you need to do?
- Step 1 Quickly survey the text - Look at the title and any other clues, read the first
and last paragraphs, look at the overall organisation of the text, read the
first Line of every paragraph.
- Step 2 Read the statements in the questions first, noting key words. This is
important as you will need to match all the statements.
- Step 3 Skim the sections to find the one that seems to match the heading. It is not
necessary to read every word.
Optional: transfer your answers now to the answer sheet. Check spelling and grammatical accuracy as you go.
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