Selective Highlighting
What is the difference between
highlighting and selective
highlighting?
Turn and Talk
Selective Highlighting is...
•Strategic
•Selective
•Purposeful
What kinds of things could
you Selectively Highlight?
•Key words
•Key phrases
•Unknown Vocabulary
•Main ideas
Why is Selective Highlighting an important
reading comprehension strategy?
• Learn to identify the important points of
a text
•Helps you pay close attention to what you
are reading
•Can allow greater learning and deeper
comprehension
Skim the text...
What are some of the different
elements or parts of the text?
What type of text is this?
What do you think the text is about?
Today we are going to use Selective Highlighting
to locate specific information into two columns...
Things that are polite
Things that are rude
Let’s look at the first section
of text.
According to this piece of text what is polite?
According to this piece of text what is rude?
Red =
Polite
Green =
Rude
Now that we have gone through an example as a class, in
pairs you are going to complete the following:
1) Read through the remainder of the text.
2) As you are reading you will have two different colour highlighters/pencils and
you will highlight as you go in one colour actions that are polite and in the other
colour actions that are rude.
3) Once you finish this, draw up a table in your English Workbooks like the example
below:
Things that are polite
Things that are rude
4) Using the information you have highlighted, summarise the information into the
table
5) When you finish this, you can continue working on your ‘Paragraphs about
Semester Two Goals or you can read quietly.