Reading and Analyzing

What is Tone?

• How the text makes you feel reading it

• How you feel about the subject of the text

• How the audience interacts with the text

• The author's attitude towards their subject

What does Word Choice refer to?

• An educational game

• The specific words, phrases, and expressions that an author or speaker uses

• The words you use to respond to a text

• Choices that we make as we talk and write that have nothing to do with words

How are Subject and Theme related to each other?

• The Subject is what the author is saying about the Theme

• They are both the same thing

• They are completely unrelated

• The Theme is what the author is saying about the Subject

Which of these are necessary for you to analyze something?

• Evidence to support your arguments/claims

• A tool or method (such as annotation) to help you understand the information yourself

• A summary of the information you are analyzing

• An argument or explanation for what the information actually means

• All of the above

What are Text Features?

• The color and font of the main body of the text

• Short excerpts from longer texts

• Parts of a text that are not part of the main body of written text

• The exact words the author uses

Critical reading is a demanding process. To read critically, you must slow down your reading and, with pencil in hand, perform specific operations on the text. Mark up the text with your reactions, conclusions, and questions. When you read, become an active participant.

This paragraph best supports the statement that

• critical reading is a slow, dull, but essential process.

• the best critical reading happens at critical times in a person’s life.

• readers should get in the habit of questioning the truth of what they read.

• critical reading requires thoughtful and careful attention.

Why is it important to cite your evidence?

• Let's the reader know you are giving accurate information.

• So you don't plagiarize.

• Both answers are correct.

Make an inference based off of this sentence.

The skies were gray today just like her mood everyday.

• She is a sad person

• She enjoys nature

• She doesn't like rain

• She is a happy person.

What is the meaning of this simile? Her smile was like the sun.

• She has bright teeth

• Her teeth are yellow.

• Her smile lights up a room.

Winter was approaching, and we still could not afford to pay our electric bill. The days were getting shorter and colder. I had no choice but to look for a part time job to help Mom and Dad.

The author uses "The days were getting shorter and colder" to create a feeling of

• happiness

• relief

• sadness

• discouragement