Reading Strategies
This strategy requires retelling the most important ideas from a text in your own words
What is summarizing?
This food chain is where most of our food comes from.
What is industrial?
This feature tells the reader what the text is mostly about.
What is a title/heading?
Most processed foods start out as this sort of crop
What is corn?
This is what Ms. Rocha was not allowed to eat when she was younger, due to her mothers concern about the caffeine content.
What is chocolate? (7mg of caffeine)
This is what we look for when summarizing a text
What is the main idea?
This is the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
Who is Michael Pollan?
This feature chunks information into clear sections.
What are subheadings?
These are large factory operations that contain cramped cattle.
What is a feedlot?
This is the estimated amount of energy drinks Canadians drink in a month
What is 7 million?
This strategy requires readers to combine clues from the text with their own knowledge to understand deeper meaning.
What is inferring?
Michael Pollan says we should vote with this kitchen utensil.
What is a fork?
This feature helps readers quickly find specific information without reading the entire text.
What is an index?
This is the percentage of people who buy fresh over processed food.
What is 40%? (4 out of 10 people)
There are this many kinds of vegetarianism
What is 5?
This reading strategy is used when looking for a specific piece of information (eg. a date in a history article)
What is scanning?
This food chain is grown on small farms and travels a short distance to a farmers' market.
What is Local Sustainable?
This feature provides extra information about an image or diagram
What is a caption?
This animal represents 91% of land animals farmed for food in Canada.
What is a chicken?
What is 80mg?
A student understands all the words in a paragraph but still doesn’t understand the meaning. Which strategy should they use and why?
Inferring or questioning.
The conflict of "we can eat anything, but how do we know what to eat?" is called this
Omnivore's Dilemma
This feature is most effective if you are trying to show how things compare.
What is a chart/graph?
Raw foodists do not eat meat heated past this temperature.
What is a temperature of 116?
This version of Canada's Food Guide was posted in this year.
What is 2007?