Reading

►Pleasure
►Critical
Reading Reading
 Passive  Active
 Relaxed  Academic
 Comfortable  Done to get
 Done for you
personal thinking
interest more about
underlying
 Critical Reading
►Take notes as you read:
 Ideas that seem important
(importance may not be clear
yet).
 Images/ideas that keep
coming up
 Questions that you have
(usually about the author’s
 Ideas that seem important
(importance may not be
clear yet).
►How to know what ideas might
be important?
 Class handouts
 Class discussions
 Recurring ideas
 Defining actions/situations
 Images/ideas that keep
coming up
►Recurring images help reinforce an
important idea in a book:
 How a character/setting is
described
 Comparisons to unlike things
(humans to animals, etc.)
 Situations that seem to keep
happening in different
 Questions (and answers)
that you have
About the Author
►Why did the author
_____________?
►What purpose does ________have
on the story?
►Why did the author choose this
setting?
 Questions and answers to
consider
About the Audience
►What audience is the author
trying to reach?
►What values are revealed
about this audience?
►How does the language
chosen help reach this
audience?
 Questions and answers to
consider
About the Text
►What impact does the text style
have on the story?
►What impact does the language
have on the story?
►Why does the language
change/remain the same
throughout the story?
►Etc.