{"id":1033,"date":"2016-10-10T21:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-englishcomp1\/?post_type=chapter&p=1033"},"modified":"2016-10-21T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T18:04:57","slug":"a-note-taking-guide-for-critical-reading","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/austincc-atdcoursereview-englishcomp-1\/chapter\/a-note-taking-guide-for-critical-reading\/","title":{"raw":"A Note Taking Guide for Critical Reading","rendered":"A Note Taking Guide for Critical Reading"},"content":{"raw":"When faced with difficult or challenging reading material, use this note-taking guide to prompt your critical reading and thinking skills.\u00a0 It is important to see reading as an active endeavor, rather than a passive activity.\r\n\r\nVisualize\r\n<\/strong>Draw an image and\/or use your own words to describe the people, places, objects you \u201csee\u201d while reading this material.\r\n\r\nFind Answers\r\n1) <\/strong>Identify & DEFINE Words you don\u2019t know\r\n2) Identify & DEFINE Unfamiliar Historical or Cultural References\r\n\r\nNotice\u00a0Unique Text\r\n<\/strong>Find, List, & Describe the importance of text that looks different.\r\n(This includes size, color, italics, bold, underlined, separated, repeated, different language, etc.<\/em>)\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>Synthesize Prior Knowledge\r\n<\/strong>Identify & Explain how specific prior knowledge helped you understand this material.\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>Make Inferences<\/strong> & Predictions\r\n<\/strong>1) Identify any area of the text that required an educated guess or assumption.\r\n2) Identify a possible future outcome (if any) of the situation described in the story.\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>Make Comparisons\r\n<\/strong>Text-to-Self: Compare an issue in the work to a specific incident from your personal life.\r\nText-to-Text: Compare any issue in the work to a fictional work (story, book, film, show, play, etc.)<\/em>Text-to-World: Compare the incident to a historical event.\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

When faced with difficult or challenging reading material, use this note-taking guide to prompt your critical reading and thinking skills.\u00a0 It is important to see reading as an active endeavor, rather than a passive activity.<\/p>\n

Visualize
\n<\/strong>Draw an image and\/or use your own words to describe the people, places, objects you \u201csee\u201d while reading this material.<\/p>\n

Find Answers
\n1) <\/strong>Identify & DEFINE Words you don\u2019t know
\n2) Identify & DEFINE Unfamiliar Historical or Cultural References
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\nNotice\u00a0Unique Text
\n<\/strong>Find, List, & Describe the importance of text that looks different.
\n(This includes size, color, italics, bold, underlined, separated, repeated, different language, etc.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Synthesize Prior Knowledge
\n<\/strong>Identify & Explain how specific prior knowledge helped you understand this material.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Make Inferences<\/strong> & Predictions
\n<\/strong>1) Identify any area of the text that required an educated guess or assumption.
\n2) Identify a possible future outcome (if any) of the situation described in the story.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Make Comparisons
\n<\/strong>Text-to-Self: Compare an issue in the work to a specific incident from your personal life.
\nText-to-Text: Compare any issue in the work to a fictional work (story, book, film, show, play, etc.)<\/em>Text-to-World: Compare the incident to a historical event.<\/p>\n

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