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Critical Reading

LESSON 5

Many have not learned to approach texts


with a questioning stance that probes for underlying assumptions or intentions. Students often read at surface level; if they do not get it they give up rather than engage in the difficulty of the task.
Bosley 2008: 286

High schools typically teach students to read receptively, to read for information. Many freshman students have not been taught to read actively or critically, to construct knowledge as they read.
Bosley 2008: 286

Critical Reading
Critical = 1. Crucial, significant, serious 2. Fault finding, censorious

Critic= 1. One who forms and expresses, judgements of the merits, faults, value or truth of matter. 2. One who specializes especially professionally in the evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works: a film critic, dance critic 3. One who tends to make harsh or carping judgements: a faultfinder

Types of Reader

Literal Reading
Literal Reading Entails The Ability:
To recognize words accurately To identify topic, main ideas, and supporting details To understand sequence of events To recognize cause and effect relationships To interpret directions To understand organizational patterns used in various types of reading matter.

Critical Reading
Critical reading is the process of questioning and evaluating printed material to determine its accuracy, depth, relevance and credibility.

Affective Reading
Affective reading fuses the readers intellectual and emotional responses to what he or she read

CR is for?
To enable someone to realize why he/she is influenced or not influenced by certain issues. To enable someone to weigh public issues and make intelligent choices
To enable someone to detect misleading advertisement claims, recognize the best values

Critical Reading = Critical Thinking


Critical reading is the manifestation of critical thinking
The use of mental ability as a tool of inquiry - making purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analyze, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteria logical, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based, in reading

Critical Reading Skills


Distinguishing fact from opinion

Interpreting connotation of words


Discovering the authors point of view Recognizing crooked and fallacious thinking Detecting propaganda Recognizing statistical slips Making inferences Discovering the authors competence, intention, attitude, authors bias, time of publication and target readers

"I did not murder my mother and father with an axe! Please don't find me guilty; I'm suffering enough through being an orphan. "You are studying at a rich college. Therefore you must be rich."
I've met four Sundanese girls so far, and they were both very pretty. So, all Sundanese girls are very pretty. Since Egyptians did so much excavation to construct the pyramids, they were well versed in paleontology."

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