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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?
on the next page. Complete the rest of the word web using the information in the passage.

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

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