Reading Strategies
As you are reading, you stumble across a word that is unfamiliar. What should you do?
Circle the word!
Which parts of the brain does music tap into?
a. Parts involved with advertising
b. Parts involved with reasoning
c. Parts involved with moving
d. Parts involved with sleeping
B. Reasoning
"UCLA examined the test scores of 25,000 students in grades 8 to 12 over a period of 10 years. Researchers found that students with a high interest in instrumental music scored higher in math knowhow than did others."
What does examined mean?
a. change or adjust slightly
b. copy / imitate
c. study closely
d. improve
c. Study closely
Essay Topic: What are the benefits of listening to music for students?
How could you start the first sentence of the first paragraph of the essay?
With a creative hook - fun fact, question, or story!
"The College Entrance Examination Board compared the test scores of students with no music background to the scores of student musicians. What did they find out about the test scores of these students "
Fill in the blanks: Upon review, the College Entrance Examination Board found that ___________________________ were higher than ___________________________.
Scores of student musicians; scores of non-musicians
As you are reading, you stumble across a key idea in the passage. What reading strategy is helpful to ensure you pay special attention to this key idea?
Underline it!
What is a possible effect of learning to play music?
a. Wanting some baby back ribs
b. Having parts of your body numbed
c. Getting a tune out of your head
d. Improving your academic scores
D. Improving your academic Scores
The parts of the brain that are busy when listening to music are the same parts that become active when hearing one’s own private song. ________, it is possible that these regions of the brain make up those private songs when none are available.
Choose the missing word:b. Unless
c. Although
D. Despite
This is the only word that connects the ideas. The others should contrast or difference.
Essay Topic: What are the benefits of listening to music for students?
What do we call the last sentence of the first paragraph that anchors the essay and states the purpose?
Thesis Statement
What is the main idea of the passage?
a. Music increases test scores
b. Music is important
c. Music impacts people in different ways
d. Music is fun
c. Music impacts people in different ways
In Big Bold headings, we see "Can't Get That Song Out of My Head" and "Operation Song". What do we call these titles of sections?
Subheadings (headings)
What is one positive effect listening to music may have on children?
They may achieve higher test scores
The patients were divided into three categories.
Do you think the groups were similar or different? Why or why not?
The categories were different because they wanted to show differences in the experiment among hospital patients. Categories means that groups are split by different characteristics
Essay Topic: What are the benefits of listening to music for students?
Line from the Essay: After six months, the piano players scored higher on math tests.
What is this line from the essay called?
a. Thesis
b. Hook
c. Evidence
d. Conclusion
c. Evidence
A student cited the main idea as Music allows hospital patients to be calmer.
Why is this student incorrect?
This main idea is too specific and doesn't account for the whole article
Underneath the picture, you read "Learning to play music is linked to improved academic test scores." What is this phrase in italics called?
Caption
What is one possible effect music may have on surgery patients?
They may be calmer and use less sedation
They were all given a device to control the amount of pain-relieving sedative they received. All were awake through the process
What is a sedative? What word/phrase in the sentence clues us into the definition.
Something that lessens pain / knocks a patient out during a procedure
"Pain releiving"
Essay Topic: Does listening to music have a positive effect on hospital patients?
What is the purpose of this essay? What word in the topic cued you into your decision?
a. Compare and Contrast
b. Informative
c. Argumentative
d. Narrative
c. Argumentative
--> "Positive Effect"
If this article were written from first person POV, how would it be different?
-We would have more stories from the author's experience
-It may be less objective (fact-based)
What kind of text is this?
a. Informational Text
b. Narrative Text
c. Argumentative Tesxt
d. Fictional Text
What is a musical hallucination?
When your brain searches for a song it recognizes, and if it can't find one, it'll invent a new one!
The College Entrance Examination Board compared students with no music background to student musicians.
What is a word that could replace compared and clarify that we are looking for differences between student musicians and students without music background?
Examples: Contrasted, Differentiated, Opposed, etc.
ESSAY TOPIC: How might a musician experience life differently than someone who does not play or listen to music?
Why would this topic be difficult to write about if we only were reading this article?
There is insufficient (not enough) evidence from the experience of someone who doesn't listen to music?
Playing music most likely has an impact on a person’s brain. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?
Find a direct sentence (or 2) in the passage that supports this claim.
Musicians are even more likely to have a hard time getting a tune out of their heads. Doctors say that’s because musicians’ brains are hooked up in a special way.
OR
It seems that making music taps into parts of the brain involved with reasoning, say researchers.