AVID Critical Reading

What does AVID stand for?

• Always Very Intelligent Decisions

• Advancement Via Individual Determination

• Assistance Via Individual Development

• Achieving Victory In Determination

Why is critical reading important in AVID?

• AVID does not focus on critical reading skills

• Critical reading does not improve comprehension in AVID

• Critical reading helps students analyze and evaluate information, develop higher-level thinking skills, and improve comprehension and retention of material.

• Critical reading is not necessary in AVID

How can you improve your critical reading skills?

• Practice active reading by engaging with the text, asking questions, summarizing key points, and analyzing the author's arguments and evidence.

• Watching TV shows instead of reading

• Skipping through the text without understanding

• Ignoring the author's arguments and evidence

What are some strategies for active reading?

• Doodling, daydreaming, multitasking

• Ignoring, guessing, speed-reading

• Underlining, memorizing, skimming

• Previewing, highlighting, note-taking, questioning, summarizing

What is the purpose of annotating while reading?

• To skip over important details

• The purpose of annotating while reading is to enhance comprehension and retention.

• To slow down reading speed

• To confuse the reader

How can you effectively summarize a text?

• Skim through, guess, add personal opinions

• Ignore main ideas, focus on minor details

• Use complex language, introduce new ideas

• Read, identify main ideas, key points, condense, maintain original meaning, avoid unnecessary information

What is the difference between summarizing and paraphrasing?

• Summarizing adds personal opinions, while paraphrasing does not

• Paraphrasing includes direct quotes, while summarizing does not

• The main difference between summarizing and paraphrasing is that summarizing condenses the main ideas, while paraphrasing restates the text in your own words.

• Summarizing is longer than paraphrasing

Why is it important to ask questions while reading?

• Asking questions while reading leads to distraction

• It is important to ask questions while reading to clarify understanding, engage with the material, and promote critical thinking.

• It is unnecessary to ask questions while reading

• Questions hinder the flow of reading

How can you identify the main idea of a passage?

• Look for the author's name in the passage

• Choose the first sentence of the passage as the main idea

• Count the number of characters in the passage

• Look for the central theme or message that the author is trying to convey.

What role does context play in critical reading?

• Context only confuses readers in critical reading

• Context is irrelevant in critical reading

• Context is only important in fiction, not non-fiction

• Context provides essential information for interpreting and analyzing texts in critical reading.