Joining the conversation General Questions for Effective Reading Do you like the piece What do you like about the piece If you were able to talk with the authors w hat would you ask them to write more about ID: 201205
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Reading Actively
Joining
the conversationSlide2
General Questions for Effective Reading
Do you like the piece?
What
do you like about the piece?
If you were able to talk with the authors,
w
hat would you ask them to write more about?
In one minute, how would you summarize what you read to a friend?
Over all what are the authors trying to elicit in the readers?Slide3
Specific questions to consider
Emotional reactions:
Specifically, what do you like about the piece?
What don’t you like?
How does the piece make you feel? Is the author trying to make you feel something in particular?
What words or passages provoke the strongest emotions in you?Slide4
Questions about main point(s)
Mark the main points if explicitly stated
Look for sentences that suggest main points
Do the authors contradict themselves?
If
any information is new to
you, how does new information change your thinking?Slide5
Questions about organization
How does the opening affect you?
What happens to the message if you were to remove the concluding paragraph?
What is the sequence of ideas? What happens if you re-order them?Slide6
Questions about difficulty
Which particular words and/or sentences are difficult to understand?
Why is the text difficult to read?
What experience or education would you need to understand easily?
Why did the authors situate the piece at that particular reading level?Slide7
Questions about the authors
What knowledge of the authors do you have? How does this affect your response?
Do the writers explicitly communicate or indirectly communicate anything about themselves?Slide8
Questions abut the writing process
Where does the information come from? Are sources named in the text?
Has anyone else (e.g., editors, translators, printers) tampered with the content?Slide9
Questions about you, the reader
How do you react while reading the piece?
Do your feelings change as you read on?
Do your expectations change?
What kinds of things do you like to read? What do you avoid?
What knowledge or experience do you bring to the reading? Can that affect the way you read the piece?
What mood is created in you by the piece?
Which words and passages evoke the mood
?Slide10
Questions about the intended audience
What does the writer assume about the readers?
Does the author state the assumptions anywhere?
Does the piece contain technical jargon?
Who would understand the jargon?
Does the author seem to address more than one audience? How do you know?Slide11
Questions on genre
What kind of piece is it?
Personal story? Fiction? Political speech? Advertising?
Opinion-editorial?
How does the author use genres in the piece (e.g., personal anecdote, argument, etc.)?
How is the piece like other pieces of the genre?Slide12
Questions about culture
Does the author reference cultural norms or events (e.g., holidays, customs, religions, etc.) that come from cultures you are unfamiliar with?
How important is knowledge of these for understanding?
Can you attribute cultural differences to those aspects that are strange or foreign ?Slide13
Questions about values
Where, if anywhere,
d
oes the author state a personal belief or principle?
Is the belief deeply held?
How can you tell from the text?
What values/principles are implied?
What ideas (or people, sources, etc.) seem to be devalued?
How do you feel about the devaluation?Slide14
Results of asking questions
Questions provide a way of looking at a piece
Looking at a piece from several vantage points allows for a fuller understanding
Also allows for thinking about the piece as something that can be changed
You become conversant, which leads to ownership—you own the knowledge rather than accept someone else’s knowledge