Reading Strategy: Plan Your Reading

Before you read the interview, look it over. Notice the features, like the title and subtitle, to get an idea of what the selection is about. Look at the headings, pictures, maps, and charts. Then set a purpose, or reason, for reading.

Reading Strategy: Plan Your Reading
    How to Preview and Set A Purpose

  • 1. Look at the title. Then look at other features. Think about what the interview is about.

  • 2. What do you want to learn from the interview? Write questions that you would like to answer.

  • 3. Read to answer your questions.

Strategy in Action

Here’s how one student previewed the text and set a purpose.

Look Into the Text

title KIDS LIKE ME

How are these kids like me?

subtitle Voices of the Immigrant Experience

Meet six teens who are from different parts of the world. Now they live in cities and towns across the United States. They have families and friends in the U.S. Yet they remember and still observe some of the customs of their culture from “home.” This is true whether their native country is South Korea, Peru, French Guyana, Iraq, Somalia, or Ethiopia.

What customs do they still observe and why?

Practice Together

Read the passage again. Follow the steps in the How-To box. Set your purpose by writing a question about what you want to learn from the interview.