Learning Intention: We are learning to determine what is important when we read and what is just interesting.

We can’t possibly remember everything we read. Our brains are like a sieve, sifting  what is important, what is just interesting and what we don’t need to remember at all.

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You can use a T chart to help ‘sort’ information into things that is

important (crucial, essential, significant, notable)

and things that are just

interesting (funny, weird, strange, unheard of).

But before you read, you need to know WHY it is going to be important. Does it help you to do something? Do you need to write about the main idea? Are you looking for specific information?

Attached below is an article called ‘Get Active Each day’. Let’s assume you are reading it to find out HOW you can be active each day.

You will remember that reason when you are reading the article and looking for what is important to WHY you are reading it, and what is just interesting.

You can use a T chart to sort your points, like the student did in this photograph:

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Here is the text “Get Active Each Day” Have a go trying to SORT the information into ‘Interesting’ and ‘Important’!

 

How about you write a comment below sharing:

1 IMPORTANT fact and 1 INTERESTING fact from the article?