Active Skills for Reading Intro (Unit 10: Fashion and Trends)


CHAPTER 1 - Fashion Focus: Street Style

Reading Skill - Understanding Main Ideas in Paragraphs

The main idea of a paragraph is the most important point. Usually, the first or second sentence in a paragraph gives the main idea. By understanding the main idea of each paragraph, you can also understand the main idea of the whole passage.

A. Read each pair of sentences below. Then read the passage. Which sentence is the main idea of each paragraph? Choose your answer.

Paragraph 1


Paragraph 2


Paragraph 3


Paragraph 4


B. What is street style? Which paragraph(s) say what street style means?

Answer

Street style describes forms of fashion made public by bloggers who photograph stylish and fashionable people they see on the streets. (Paragraphs 2 and 3.)

C. Read the passage again.

Set a class goal for reading rate and comprehension. Before you begin reading, set a class goal for reading fluency. What do you want your class average for words-per-minute to be for this reading? Having class goals to work towards can help you become a better reader.

Focus on Street Style

"People dress differently in New York and Paris," says Scott Schuman, who writes a blog about fashion. People in cities around the world pay attention to their clothes, and they work hard to look beautiful. They use their culture and the materials around them to create their own look.

Schuman started his blog to "simply share photos of people that I saw on the streets of New York." He thought the people looked fashionable, and he put photos online. Schuman isn't alone. Bloggers all around the world are using their cameras to report what is happening in their home cities. Since bloggers find and write about stylish people on the street, this type of fashion is called street style.

Fashion changes often. With the Internet, street style changes even more quickly. Bloggers only need minutes to snap a picture and post it online. Their readers can use those ideas to create their own styles. Fashion used to come from the runways of Paris and Milan. Now fashion is homegrown.

Do you think your city is fashionable? Go online! There are street style blogs for most cities around the world, even small ones. Does your city have one?


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