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CLOSE AND CRITICAL READING

CLOSE AND CRITICAL READING. VILLAGE OF HOPE ACADEMIES 8/29/11. What is Close and Critical Reading?.

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CLOSE AND CRITICAL READING

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  1. CLOSE AND CRITICAL READING VILLAGE OF HOPE ACADEMIES 8/29/11

  2. What is Close and Critical Reading? Close and critical reading is the ability to comprehend information, analyze how it is presented, determine the purpose and perspective of the author, establish what it means, and apply it to your life.

  3. Question 1: What Does the text say? • Briefly summarize the reading at a LITERAL level. In order in summarize students must be able to: • Determine important ideas • Use fix-up strategies • Visualize • Ask questions **Emphasize the need for students to use their OWN words!

  4. Question One Activities: • Circle most important word or phrase/Underline the most important things said about that word or phrase • One-syllable word summary • Highlighted Reading • Paragraph Shrinking

  5. Question 2:How does the text say it? Text is Analyzed for: • Structure • Organization • Genre • Purpose • Perspective Description of how the author crafts the text using: • Voice • Dialogue • Language • Figures of speech • Imagery • Mood • Etc. *** Use Text structure discussions as a foundation. (Later we can discuss profundity and other ways to discuss the craft of the text)

  6. Question 3:What does the text mean?3rd and final level of reading Interpret the text and analyze the argument…does it make sense? Does the information support the claim? Can you accept the conclusion based on the information provided? This includes finding the… Thesis: argument the writer is making in a non-fiction text (it is often clearly stated in a sentence or two). OR Theme: message of a fiction text (this has be to comprehended upon reflection).

  7. Model Responses to the Three Questions: • Nursery Rhyme Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
and everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go. • Question # 1 - A restatement would talk about Mary and the lamb. • Example: Mary had a lamb that followed her everywhere. • Question # 2 - A description would talk about the story within the fairy tale. • Example: The nursery rhyme describes a pet that followed its mistress everywhere. • Question # 3 - The interpretation talks about meaning within the story, here the idea is of innocent devotion. • Example: An image of innocent devotion is conveyed by the story of a lamb’s devotion to its mistress. The devotion is emphasized by repetition that emphasizes the constancy of the lamb’s actions (“everywhere”…”sure to go.”) The notion of innocence is conveyed by the image of a young lamb, “white as snow.” By making it seem that this is natural and good, the nursery rhyme asserts innocent devotion as a positive relationship. (Missionliteracy.com)

  8. Question 4: So what? • MAKE CONNECTIONS! How does this text relate to me and my world? Why does it matter? • Text-to-text • Text-to-self • Text-to-world To help practice connection making (as well as other elements of the process) use: • Think alouds • Talking to the text • Marginalia (margin notes)

  9. For more information/ideas: Check out: www.missionliteracy.com

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