Reading | Food Storage and Preservation

I learnt that food storage and preservation means to store and keep food at its original or current state so that it is still edible over a period of time.

The activity that we did was to skim and scan through 14 texts that talked about food storage and preservation. We identified whether the text was a recount, information report, explanation, narrative, procedure or persuasive.

We then focused on the Author's purpose. The Author's purpose determines what the author of the text is trying to do or tell. For example: The function of a narrative is to tell a story. The purpose of telling a story is to entertain a reader, therefore the Author's purpose of a narrative is to entertain a reader.

After that, we wrote the UTE (Usefulness and Trustworthyness Evaluation). The UTE determines how useful a text is to the reader. By skimming and scanning through a text, the reader can find key information and evaluate if the text is useful and from a trustworthy source. We filled in the UTE by using a scale of 1-5 (1 being not useful at all and 5 being very useful for information, from a trustworthy source and being current information).

Next we wrote a summary about each of the 14 texts.

I enjoyed this activity because I was able to skim and scan through a text to find key information.

LI: to evaluate texts.