Reading techniques: Mice

1. Scanning: Which of these mice could live in the Antarctica?
2. Reading between the lines: Do you think that the Jumping mice likes insects?
3. Predicting: How many kinds of mice exist?
4. Guessing meaning from the context: Read the text, what do you think these words mean: tail, cables, grams.
5. Skimming: What do you think this text is about?
6. Intensive reading: Complete this table with the information that appears in the text:

 

MICE	LENGTH	WEIGHT	FOOD	FEATURES
PYGMY MOUSE
JUMPING MOUSE
HOUSE MOUSE
HARVEST MOUSE
DORMOUSE   Produced by: María Racionero and Lorena Seco