Critical Reading
This approach involves listening first to understand before speaking, similar to how you should approach reading in college.
What is reading as a conversation?
This type of reading focuses on understanding the literal meaning of the text, such as what the author is "saying" and identifying the thesis and key points.
What is the first reading?
This strategy involves stopping periodically to assess how well you understand what you are reading.
What is monitoring your reading comprehension?
This type of writing, often used in college reading assignments, is nonfiction and informational, focusing on conveying facts and explanations.
What is expository writing?
This happens when we analyze tasks, set up goals, implement strategies, and reflect on what we’re learning.
What is Metacognition?
This type of reading goes beyond understanding the author's meaning to analyze the choices they make in communicating their message.
What is critical reading?
This is a cultural development that began 6,000 years ago when humans began to use symbols to represent ideas.
Reading
This approach involves pausing at the end of each section to briefly restate the main points in a few sentences.
What is summarizing?
After identifying the main point in a text, the next step is to find these, which include details, facts, and explanations that develop the main idea.
What are supporting points?
What is “How does metacognition work?”
These questions guide your critical reading process, starting broadly and moving towards specifics.
What are inquiry-based questions?
In this reading phase, you consider your readiness to join the academic conversation and reflect on how the text relates to other readings, discussions, or real-world situations.
What are further readings?
Textbooks often include these features in the margins or at the end of chapters to help monitor comprehension.
What are comprehension questions?
In expository writing, this primary idea is often found in these two sections of a text.
What are the introduction and the conclusion?
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This strategy helps readers comprehend unfamiliar words by examining their roots, prefixes, suffixes, and contextual clues.
What is decoding vocabulary?
During this reading phase, you focus on how the author communicates, including literary or rhetorical techniques, and ask questions as if having a conversation with the author.
What is the second reading?
This strategy involves identifying two or three what? when you begin reading a section and using them to test your understanding afterward.
What are ([is] asking and answering) QUESTIONS?
The first comprehension goal when reading any expository text is to identify this key element that the writer wants to communicate.
What is the main point?
This is accomplished by moving beyond simply understanding what the author is trying to say and thinking about the conversation in which the author is participating.
What is becoming a successful reader in college?
A key to becoming an effective reader, this approach involves reading a text multiple times, analyzing, and synthesizing the material.
What is reading actively and recursively?
This strategy emphasizes discussing readings with classmates, often through online forums or class blogs, to gauge your understanding against your peers.
What is not reading in a vacuum?
Identifying the main point in a reading provides this, which helps to organize the details and relate them to class concepts or other readings.
What is a framework?