{"id":26,"date":"2015-02-02T22:43:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/abealf3\/?post_type=chapter&p=26"},"modified":"2019-06-11T22:28:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:28:26","slug":"the-gentleman-bandit","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/abealf3\/chapter\/the-gentleman-bandit\/","title":{"raw":"The Gentleman Bandit","rendered":"The Gentleman Bandit"},"content":{"raw":"

Reading Strategy<\/span><\/h1>\r\n\"AUDIO-1-BT-44x44\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn the last chapter<\/a>, you learned a pre-reading strategy called Predict<\/em>. You looked at the title, pictures, and words from the story to guess what it was about.\r\n\r\nIn this chapter, you will use a pre-reading strategy called Question<\/em>. Asking questions about the topic in the reading helps stir up our interest. When we read with questions in mind, it helps us make sense of what we read.\r\n\r\nHere are some question words:\r\n\r\n\"question-words1\"<\/a>\r\n

Try this<\/h2>\r\n

1. Find The Gentleman Bandi<\/em>t<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in your reader. Look at the title and pictures. Use a dictionary to look up any words in the title that you do not know. What is the subject of the reading?<\/p>\r\n

2.\u00a0Ask your instructor for the Question<\/a> sheet, or open and print one from the link.<\/p>\r\n

3. Under I wonder<\/em>..., make a list of five questions you have about this subject.<\/p>\r\n

Example: What was the bandit's real name? What did he steal? Did he get caught?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Share your work with your instructor.<\/span><\/div>\r\n

Word Attack Strategy<\/span><\/h1>\r\n
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Word\u00a0Patterns<\/h3>\r\n\"AUDIO-1-BT-44x44\"<\/a>Sometimes when you get stuck on a big\u00a0word, it helps to look for smaller words inside of the big\u00a0word.\r\n