Qualities for CriticalActive Readers:

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Qualities for Critical/Active Readers

• Investigation
• Curiosity
• Questioning Attitude (See The McGraw Hill
  Handbook, Chap. 7, 144.
• A Desire To Engage the Text In
  Conversation
• How Is This Done?

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How to Engage the Text through Conversation?

• 1st Tools like a pencil and highlighter
• 2nd Highlighting the text carefully.
• 3rd Annotating comments in the margin. Also,
  see The McGraw Hill Handbook, Chap. 7, 150-151.

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What Should Be Paid Attention To Carefully?

• Author and Publication Facts
• The Title
• Headings and Subheadings
• 1st and Last Paragraph To Skim
• The Thesis
• Support of Thesis

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More Suggestions for Critical-Active Readers

• Read The Text Several Times
• First, for Surface Meaning
• Then, other times for Deeper Meaning write
  short questions about points you dont understand
  or want to explore further in the margin.
• Use the Dictionary To Look Up Unfamiliar Terms
  From 1st Reading

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More Suggestions for Critical-Active Readers

• Reread Aloud Unfamiliar Passages From Read 1
• Remember during these reading you are still
  focusing on
• Author and publication facts, the title, headings
  and subheadings, the thesis, and support for the
  thesis.
• Lastly, Discuss the Text With Others.

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Additionally,

• Pay Attention To Patterns of Organized Like
• Narration
• Description
• Persuasion
• Illustration
• Definition, etc.
• Paragraphs
• Indentions Give Direction Of New Ideas
• Transitional Terms
• Indicates Movement Within A Text See pages 103
  in The New McGraw Hill Handbook