BGE Resources Strategies to Support Reading Using strategies like skimming, scanning, predicting, clarifying, questioning and analysing. Go to this Sway Making Notes from a Text Making notes, in their own words, about what they have read Go to this Sway Reading and Understanding New Vocabulary Using prior knowledge and context to work out the meaning of new words Go to this Sway Facts, Opinions and Persuasive Techniques Discussing similarities and differences between texts and identifying things like facts, opinions and/or persuasive techniques Go to this Sway Purpose and Audience Identifying the purpose and audience of a text Go to this Sway