(M2-GUIDE) Pre-Reading The Text-1

[M2-GUIDE] Study Guide for Module 2 Pre-reading the Text
SUBTOPIC 1:
I. Familiarize
Read the following definition/description of concepts involved in this subtopic:
• Pre-reading Strategies
➢ First stage of the reading process which prepares readers for the
reading task
• Activating Prior Knowledge

➢ Relating the text’s content to the reader’s expectations
• Previewing Vocabulary
➢ Scanning for unfamiliar words
• Previewing the Text

➢ Scanning the organization of the text
• Setting the Purpose

➢ Readers identify why they would be reading the text
II. Expose
Study the following examples/illustrations about this subtopic:
Activating your prior knowledge
Prepared by: Helen C. Raymundo 06/24/2020

IMAGE SOURCE:
Northern Gateway (n.d.). [Table]. Literacy Resources.
https://sites.google.com/a/ngps.ca/literacy-resources/interacting-with-text/before-
reading/anticipation-guide
III. Understand
Do the short activity below to test your understanding.
• Identify the pattern of organization is signaled by the highlighted words in text that
follows:
Artificial intelligence, or AI, refers to principles and applications of computer algorithms that attempt to mimic various aspects of human
intelligence. Although the term was coined in the 1950s, it took decades of research before aspects of AI research reached the point of
significant commercial impact.
By the mid-1990s, practical, commercial AI-based systems for automating or assisting in a variety of human decision-making tasks had
been developed and were being used in fraud detection and in the configuration of computer systems.23,24 While early AI systems were
typically constructed manually—that is, with programmers writing computer-interpretable rules to define a computer-based decision
process—there has been a shift toward AI systems based on machine learning methods—that is, algorithms that infer their own decision-
making rules from training data—by harnessing large data sets. For example, fraud-detection strategies are now developed automatically
by machine learning algorithms that analyze millions of historical credit card transactions.
SUBTOPIC 2:
IV. Familiarize
Read the following definition/description of concepts involved in this subtopic:

Specialized or Technical Vocabulary is…
❑ Usually defined in the text

❑ written in bold or italics
❑ Often repeated within specialized and technical text
V. Expose
Study the following examples/illustrations about this subtopic:
In figuring out meanings of technical terms..

Look up the meaning of the word in:
• Dictionary
• Glossary of a textbook
• Internet
Figure out the meaning using context clues:

• Synonyms found in the text
• Antonyms found in the text

• Examples found in the text
• Definition or description found in the text
• Meaning of word parts
VI. Understand
Do the short activity below to test your understanding.
Direction: Read any blog post related to your program (Engineering or IT). Use
the table to figure out the meaning of unfamiliar technical terms found in
specialized texts by filling the appropriate column with the clues from the text.
References:
IMAGE SOURCE: Activating prior knowledge Part 2. (n.d.). Foster

Learning. https://emintsclassroomstrategies.blogspot.com/2012/06/activating-prior-knowledge-
part-2.html
Northern Gateway (n.d.). [Table]. Literacy Resources.

https://sites.google.com/a/ngps.ca/literacy-resources/interacting-with-text/before-
reading/anticipation-guide
Chung, T. M., & Nation, P. (2003, May 21). Victoria University of Wellington–1st for research
intensity. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-publications/paul-nations-
publications/publications/2004-Chung-Identifying-Tech-Voc.pdf
SAMPLE TEXT SOURCE: 2 the technological landscape | Information technology and the U.S.
workforce: Where are we and where do we go from here? | The National Academies Press.
(n.d.). The National Academies Press. https://www.nap.edu/read/24649/chapter/4#35

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[M2-GUIDE] Study Guide for Module 2 Pre-reading the Text

• Activating Prior Knowledge

• Previewing the Text

• Setting the Purpose

Activating your prior knowledge

Prepared by: Helen C. Raymundo 06/24/2020

Prepared by: Helen C. Raymundo 06/24/2020

❑ Usually defined in the text

In figuring out meanings of technical terms..

Figure out the meaning using context clues:

Prepared by: Helen C. Raymundo 06/24/2020

IMAGE SOURCE: Activating prior knowledge Part 2. (n.d.). Foster

Northern Gateway (n.d.). [Table]. Literacy Resources.

Prepared by: Helen C. Raymundo 06/24/2020

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