Reading for the essay

1. Reading for the essay Class video presentation(13:33 mins)

Video presentation for students prepared by Dr Shashi Nallaya. Covers types of academic texts, teacher expectations, efficient reading, critical reading for an essay, transforming reading into writing.

This presentation can be shown to students as a video, or as an interactive online presentation, which can be controlled by the student. The students watch the presentation on 'players' which allow them to move forward or back through the slides, progress at their own speed, annotate or highlight individual slides, and search the text. (See more information). 

Watch the video in the Panopto viewer (It will open in a new browser window, and you may need to log in with your UniSA login details). 

Give this link to a class to watch individually ( more information): https://unisa.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=2aa1ea65-0911-46d7-ba97-aa760026e5d1   You can also download the presentation (38 MB) as a video file from this link (more information). 

Download the slides (you can adjust to suit your class) ( 4.3 KB)

Download the script (you can adjust to suit your class) (18 KB) 

Give students an interactive online presentation (12.1 MB) (See more information)

2. Reading strategies Class presentation and Teacher script 

PowerPoint slides and script for a class presentation on reading strategies for assessment and for writing essays. Includes information on reading for specific information, strategies for efficient reading, text structure, using a reading log, and an example.

Download the PowerPoint slides (946 KB)

Download the word document Teacher script (29 KB)

Browse an online folder of all the resources on writing for specific formats