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课件网) Unit 8 Our Blue Planet Lesson 3 Thinking Skills and Reading Strategies Learning Objectives In this class, you will 学习主旨大意和细节的思维技能 使用视觉阅读信息更好地理解文本 1. Who need water 2. Why do they need water Look at the picture and answer the questions. Lead-in Plants, animals and people. Water can keep them alive. Reading & Learning Learn about the thinking skills of identifying the main idea and details. The main idea gives us the most important information. Detail 1: People and animals drink water every day. Main idea: All living things need water. Detail 2: Plants need water to grow. The supporting details tell us more about the main idea. Drawing & Sharing Read the text and complete the main idea and detail chart. Main idea: _____ Detail 1: At home ·_____ ·_____ ·_____ Detail 2: Outside home ·_____ ·_____ ·_____ At home, we use water to cook, do washing or cleaning. Outside home, we can travel by water, do exercise in water, and have fun with water. Water is very useful. use water to cook do exercise in water to do cleaning travel by water have fun with water to do washing Read the text and complete the main idea and detail chart. Main idea: _____ Detail 1: _____ ·_____ ·_____ ·_____ … … Detail 2: _____ ·_____ ·_____ ·_____ Drawing & Sharing Reading Strategies Activity 1 Read the text and use the picture to help you visualize what you read. On sunny days, water goes up in the air and turns into clouds in the sky. Making pictures in your mind while reading can help you have a better understanding of what is going on in the text. What is visualizing Steps to visualize: What do you read I read: how water turns into clouds. What do you see in your mind I see: how water turns into clouds. Draw a picture What do you understand I understand: clouds come from water. First, I read _____ Then, I see in my mind _____ After that, I draw a picture in my mind. Now, I understand _____ Activity 2 Read the text and underline what makes you picture something in your mind. Do you know the water cycle Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then rains again. Reading Strategies Activity 3 Read the text in Activity 2 again and tell your partners what you visualize, and then talk about the water cycle. Do you know the water cycle Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. The drops fall and it rains. Rainwater goes into rivers, lakes and oceans. When it is sunny, water goes up into the sky, forms clouds and then rains again. Steps to visualize: I read:_____ I see in my mind:_____ Now, I understand:_____ Reading Strategies Water in the air gets cold, makes clouds and then forms water drops. cold water, clouds, water drops. rain comes from clouds. Summary We learn: the thinking skills of ... ...
