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Reading Strategies

Reading Strategies. How to read a story. How many t imes should you read a text?. First time for basic meaning. Second time should focus on analyzing key ideas and details. It should also focus on craft and structure of the text.

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Reading Strategies

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  1. Reading Strategies

  2. How to read a story

  3. How many times should you read a text? • First time for basic meaning. • Second time should focus on analyzing key ideas and details. It should also focus on craft and structure of the text. • Third time is to focus on integrating knowledge and ideas by connecting the text to the “big question”.

  4. Key Ideas and Details

  5. Context Clues • Use context clues and reference works to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. “Marty is gregarious, not like his brother who is quiet and shy.”

  6. More Key Ideas and Details Identify details to clarify through research. Make inferences about information that is implied. Ask yourself: Who are the main characters? What is the major conflict?

  7. Craft and Structure

  8. The Author uses dialogue to portray characters and move action along. “Why pack them? What logical purpose do they serve?” “I do not know sir. None, I suppose”

  9. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

  10. Ask yourselves these questions: What details paint a picture of characters or show how they change? What expectations does the author create? Are any contradicted? What does each symbol in the story represent?

  11. Consider how story details work to express theme- the story’s central insight about life. The theme may be stated or not. In “The Wizard of Oz”, Dorothy says “There is no place like home” at the end of the movie.

  12. Compare this work with others you have read.

  13. Look for Symbols-people or things that stand for a larger meaning. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”, the black bird stands for death and loss. In William Blake’s “Ah Sunflower”, the sunflower represents people and the sun represents life:

  14. Look for irony- actual outcomes that contradict expected ones. I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is. The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”. You laugh at a person who slipped stepping on a banana peel and the next thing you know, you slipped too.

  15. Ask yourselves these questions: • What insight into life is suggested by the patterns of the story details? • How is this story similar to and different from others I have read?

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