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Return to Course. Efficient Textbook Reading Reader Response Techniques This five-step procedure has been successful in improving the comprehension of many students having academic difficulty because it demands the interpretive students go beyond their personal responses to consider the interpretive communities of others by connecting what is familiar to them with what is not familiar. Developing reader response activities in the classroom has yielded greater pleasure and involvement in reading, improved comprehension, and increased retention. Nevertheless, the process does involve a commitment of time and practice on the part of both teachers and students. Color Coding or Highlighting Color coding, or highlighting, helps to draw attention to the most significant materials.

Reading 1. Skimming Strategy Skimming is reading very quickly to pick out the main ideas, main points, of the material. 1. Extension Activity Materials Textbooks Magazines Newspapers Journals Encyclopedias Scanning Strategy How to Scan 1. 1. Propaganda. Australian propaganda was designed to maintain public anger about German atrocities and idealise Australian soldiers. Most pieces promoted enlistment in some way or another and the most violent propaganda images surfaced around the time of the conscription debates. Germany’s invasion of Belgium meant that German forces were easily portrayed as the aggressors in the conflict. Inhuman and monstrous. One month after the landing at Gallipoli, the English passenger ship RMS Lusitania - a ship almost the size of the Titanic - was sunk by German submarines. 1,198 passengers and crew were killed.

Motif in Allied propaganda. Norman Lindsay, artist and author of the much-loved children’s book The Magic Pudding, created some of the most striking Australian propaganda. Propaganda also marks journalism at the time. Bias in their accounts of Allied actions. Williams, J F 1999, Anzacs, the media and the great war, UNSW Press, Sydney, NSW The heroism of individuals like Victoria Cross. Ergo | Research, resources and essay writing.

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