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READING A BIG PICTURE

READING A BIG PICTURE. an overview. SQ3R. Pre-reading. S urvey Look through the assignment. Pre-reading. Q uestion Turns the headings into questions. Reading PHASE. R eading Read for comprehension. POST-Reading. R ecite Say the answers out loud. POST-Reading. R eview Write notes.

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READING A BIG PICTURE

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  1. READINGA BIG PICTURE

  2. an overview SQ3R

  3. Pre-reading Survey Look through the assignment

  4. Pre-reading Question Turns the headings into questions

  5. Reading PHASE Reading Read for comprehension

  6. POST-Reading Recite Say the answers out loud.

  7. POST-Reading Review Write notes

  8. POST-Reading Activity A reading passage on Malaria

  9. Critical reading (an overview) Not criticizing or ‘finding fault’ but understanding how ideas have been arrived at, and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses.

  10. Critical reading Recognizing the writer’s purpose and underlying values (social, cultural and historical influences).

  11. Recognizing the writer’s purpose P I E

  12. Recognizing the writer’s purpose PERSUADE

  13. Recognizing the writer’s purpose PERSUADE

  14. Recognizing the writer’s purpose Ads

  15. Recognizing the writer’s purpose Opinion

  16. Recognizing the writer’s purpose Review

  17. Recognizing the writer’s purpose INFORM

  18. Recognizing the writer’s purpose ENTERTAIN

  19. Recognizing the writer’s purpose Knowing the author’s purpose is as easy as a PIE. Persuade Inform Entertain

  20. Critical reading Recognizing patterns of the argument.

  21. Critical reading Linking ideas in the text to other ideas and texts.

  22. Critical reading Exploring alternatives to the stated idea.

  23. Critical reading ACTIVITY 2 Identify the author’s purpose

  24. READING difficult material

  25. OBJECTIVE • To read difficult texts in a more constructive way. • To guess the meaning of words from the contextual clues.

  26. READING A DIFFICULT MATERIAL A reading material above your level of understanding ?

  27. READING DIFFICULT MATERIAL Pre-reading strategy Decide the purpose of reading. • Are you skim reading? • Are you trying to pull out the main ideas? • Are you looking for how the author applies his or her ideas?

  28. TIPS 1. Break it up into chunks • If you’re feeling snowed under by the amount of reading you need to complete, break it up into chunks. Choose a moderate amount of material and set yourself the goal of completing it and of working to understand it.

  29. Activity 3 “Communities are not built of friends, or of groups with similar styles and tastes, or even of people who like and understand each other. They are built of people who feel they are part of something that is bigger than themselves: a shared goal or enterprise, like righting a wrong, or building a road, or raising children, or living honorably, or worshipping a god. To build community requires only the ability to see value in others, to look at them and see a potential partner in one’s enterprise.” Suzanne Goldsmith, author

  30. TIPS 2. Skim read and get an overview

  31. TIPS Read: • Titles / Headings • Sub-headings • Summaries • Abstracts • Topic sentence

  32. TIPS 3. Don’t get caught up in the difficult parts • Guess the meaning of the words from the context • Make a re-reading

  33. Guess the meaning of the words from the context Take a look at this example: It had been raining hard through the night so the ground was saturated. It had been raining which means the ground must be wet. It was raining 'hard' so this means the ground is probably very wet. saturated= completely wet

  34. TIPS 4. Ask yourself questions • Make associations (relationship between what you know and what you don’t know. • Converse with the author.

  35. TIPS 5. Extra resources to broaden your understanding. • Dictionary • Background materials

  36. Activity: 4 Active reading Questions to Ask (and Answer) when Reading a Text • What issue is the writer focusing on? • Does the writer take a clear stand on this issue? • What is the writer’s purpose for writing? • Who is the audience for this writing?

  37. Activity: 2 • Does the writer seem to assume readers will agree with his/her position? • What evidence does the writer use to support the essay’s thesis/central argument? Does the writer include enough evidence? • Do you agree with the points the writer makes? Why/why not? • What connections can you make between this article and others you have read?

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