Reading for Understanding, Analysis, and

Transcript:Reading for Understanding, Analysis, and:
Reading for Understanding, Analysis, and Evaluation Understanding Questions: In your own words Summary Context Link Remember… The question will always tell you exactly what to do; close reading questions are instructions. There are no trick questions. Provide a bullet point per mark. You cannot be awarded a half mark. A word of advice: when given the option, always answer on word choice. Read for Something Read the title! Read any dateline, context summary, subheadings, and captions. Read the by-line too (at the end of the passage). Consider: Topic and issues Viewpoint (discursive/persuasive writing techniques). Bias Target audience Understanding Questions Show your understanding of the writer’s language, points, and ideas. You must use your own words to do so. The 4 types of UNDERSTANDING questions are: Own Words: Explain and translate language and ideas from the text into your own words. Summary: Identify key points or ideas and describe in brief with own words. Context questions: Give the definition of a key word and explain how the words and ideas around it help you work this out Link questions: Explain how a sentence or paragraph acts as a link between different ideas the writer discusses. Own Words Explain and translate the writers ideas, points, or language into your own words. Example The heavy rain had an immediate impact on life in the trenches. Simple tasks became a problem as soldiers were forced to trudge through sticky mud everywhere they went. How does the writer’s language convey the soldiers did not enjoy living in the trenches at this time? Use your own words. 2 marks Answer (“trudge”/ “sticky mud”) Their movements were heavy, slow and tired. The terrain was challenging and unpleasant. (“heavy rain”) The conditions were poor and the journey was laborious – additional weight from soaked kit. (“forced”) Soldiers were following orders and did not want to take the actions demanded of them – or there was no other way. Practice 1 – ‘In your own words’ Questions Explain in your own words one of the reasons why there is a “void” which “Cowell’s creation seems to be filling” {2} Many of us will spend more time in the virtual company of the contestants than we do with our real-life friends and family. In a modern world in which local communities have become increasingly fractured, where relatives live further apart from each other than ever before and where one in