Active & Critical Reading

Reading is a passive activity because we are sitting at one place and reading the words written by author.

• Yes

• No

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___________ is an active reading strategy that enhances understanding of the text. Using this strategy, the reader interacts with the text by highlighting and underlining key pieces of text and making notes in the margins.

• Annotating

• Chunking

• Relating

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____________ is a pre-reading strategy that involves looking at any titles, subheadings, charts, graphs, images, and captions. This strategy helps you make predictions and activates your prior knowledge about the topic.

• Discussing

• Previewing

• Composing

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When you look for names, places, dates, numbers, etc. in a text, you are using this reading strategy:

• Inferencing

• Skimming

• Scanning

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Skimming is a reading strategy in which you

• read quickly to get the gist

• read in-depth to understand the text

• read quickly to find specific information

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Reading critically involves the following (choose all that apply):

• Reading carefully to understand, evaluate, and analyze the text

• Bringing your own background and experience to the text

• Responding and reacting to the author's claims

• Memorizing some of the arguments made by the author

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Using ______________ strategies helps with regulating your own thinking and monitoring your understanding of the reading.

• comprehension

• pre-reading

• metacognitive

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Susan took deep breath and blew out ten candles at once, and everyone sang a song.

What’s going on here? How did you know?

• It's Susan's birthday.

  I inferred that based on the information given and what I already know.

• It's Susan's wedding.

  I just knew.

• It's Susan's graduation party.

  It's evident from the text.

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Why read actively? Choose all that apply.

• You notice and learn how published authors write, present their ideas, and organize their text AND transfer this knowledge to your own writing.

• You become aware of writing within a certain genre; what type of language is used and how the text is structures.

• Reading actively is merely entertaining.

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An/a ___________ reader is a better writer.

• active

• passive

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