Wed. Nov. 6 Active Reading Review & Chpt 4 read

Today, you were given the following timed (10 mins.) activity:

What are the seven steps to reading actively? Which ones cannot be done in a text but should be completed on a separate sheet of paper?

 

We then discussed these, tweaking them to make them more relevant for your independent novel study as well as for texts that are not printed out (so you can't mark them up). The list we came up with is as follows:

Steps to Active Reading

1. Analyze the title (write it down: add one or two words to describe what it might mean).

2 Highlights or write down the five Ws, unknown words and allusions and then define them in your own words.

3. Paraphrase in a couple of words what you are reading after each paragraph or sequence of events.

4. Once done reading, summarize the text you read in three sentences.

5. Determine what the topic is and write it down.

6. Determine what the purpose is and write it down.

7. Come up with five questions that were not answered in this text.

Students then handed in their answers for chapter 3 (pages 29-47) and were given the questions to answer for this chapter (pages 47-65) for tomorrow.