Active Skills for Reading Intro (Review 1)


Review Unit 1

Fluency Strategy: PRO

PRO stands for Preview, Read, Organize. This reading strategy will help you build your reading fluency by helping you to organize and understand what you read.

Preview

Preview means to look at the passage before you read. When you preview the passage, follow these three easy steps:
  1. Read the title on the next page. What do you think you will learn from the passage?
  2. Look at the pictures for the passage. What do they show? From the title and pictures, what do you think the passage is about?
  3. Look for any words in the passage that are in italics. These will be important words in the passage. What words in the passage on the next page are in italics?

Read

Now, read Can the Internet be bad for you? When you read, check your answers from the preview stage.

Organize

The final step of PRO is to organize the information to help you remember what you have read. One way is by creating a word web. A word web can help you easily see how the information in the passage is organized.

A. Here is an incomplete word web based on the passage Can the Internet be bad for you? Complete the rest of the word web using the information in the passage.

Internet
Good Bad - Internet addiction Special software to help
play games


Answer

pay bills; buy clothes; read news

chat with Internet friends
play online games al the time
stop working
Answer

stop spending time with friends and family

stop spending a lot of time online

Answer

stop using the Internet as an escape, focus on real life

B. Look at the word web closely. Would you organize the ideas of the passage differently? Discuss the word web with a partner.

Can the Internet be bad for you?

Spending your free time on the Internet can be fun. You can chat, share photos with friends, and play online games. But some people are addicted to the Internet. They just can't turn it off.

Being online for many hours at a time does not mean you have a problem. The Internet is very useful. Online, you can pay your bills, buy clothes, and read the news. There are many good reasons to spend time online.

However, people with an Internet addiction are online too much. They don't spend time with their friends and family. Instead, they spend their time chatting with their Internet friends, people they have never met in real life. Some also play online games all day or night. Some people with Internet addictions even leave their jobs so they can spend even more time online!

People with Internet addictions don't just go online to shop, have fun, or do work. People who have this problem often go online because they want to escape the stress and problems in their lives. Many internet addicts stop caring about their real lives, and focus only on their online lives.

One way Internet addicts can get help is by using special software. This software controls how much time someone can spend online. It tells the computer to turn off the internet after a certain amount time. This helps people focus on real life. The software's goal is to teach people to use the Internet for good reasons and not just as an escape.

- Reading Comprehension

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