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LESSON 5
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
"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."