Close Reading Quiz

Hey Anika, Aria, and Samuel! Can you tell me what close reading is?

• A quick and superficial reading of a text

• A careful and purposeful reading of a text

• Reading only the main points of a text

• Skimming through a text for key words

Elijah and Ava are debating about reading techniques. What does close reading help us to do?

• Read faster

• Ignore difficult passages

• Interpret difficult passages

• Skip unnecessary details

During a reading challenge, Maya and Arjun noticed something interesting. How does close reading affect our reading speed?

• It speeds us up

• It slows us down

• It has no effect

• It makes us skip parts

James and Anika are discussing study techniques. What does "thinking on the page" help us to do?

• Forget the content

• Write a paper or prepare for a discussion later

• Read faster

• Skip unnecessary details

During a class discussion, Nora asked, 'What does close reading always involve?'

• Skimming the text

• Ignoring the text

• Marking the text, aka annotating the text

• Reading the text silently

During a study session, Aria asked Lily, 'What is annotating more than?'

• Reading

• Highlighting

• Writing

• Skimming

Grace and William are debating: Where should your conversation with the text be written?

• In the middle of the page

• At the end of the text

• In the margins of the page

• At the beginning of the text

Hey Daniel, what symbol should you place next to important ideas or powerful quotes to make them stand out?

• Star

• Arrow

• Triangle

• Question mark

Hey Olivia, Ethan, and Benjamin! What should you highlight in the text to make your reading more effective?

• Important ideas

• Phrases you can connect to

• Author's main idea

• Confusing phrases

Aria and Liam are discussing their favorite parts of a book. What should you place around phrases that you think are interesting or best state the author’s main idea?

• Star

• Arrow

• Rectangle or brackets

• Triangle