Close Reading

What is close reading?

• Reading the text with your face as close to the paper as possible

• Reading the text without making any marks or notes on it

• Reading the text once and as quickly as possible

• Reading a text carefully to both understand it and answer questions about it

What should you be doing during your "Second Reading" of a new article?

• Looking for the main idea using the I+V+T+F strategy

• Underlining new thoughts that will become the supporting details

• Numbering your paragraphs

• Looking for the topic of the article, the who or what the article is about

What strategy do we use to help us produce the main idea of an article?

• Compare and Contrast

• Process of Elimination

• Trial and Error

• Identify + Verb + Topic + Finish the Thought (I+V+T+F)

What thing(s) do you find MOST DIFFICULT about close reading? Be specific.

What is the purpose of developing close reading skills?

• To skip over important details

• To memorize the text

• To read faster

• To understand the author's intentions and the themes and ideas presented in the text

What is close reading?

• A type of poetry

• A type of novel

• A type of movie

• A technique used in literary analysis to identify and analyze the language features of a text

What is tone in a text?

• The setting of the text

• The main idea of the text

• The attitude or mood conveyed by the author towards the subject matter

• The perspective from which the story is told

What is the significance of the symbol in the text?

• To represent a concrete idea or concept

• To represent an abstract idea or concept

• To represent numbers or letters

• To represent an abstract or concrete idea or concept

What is the purpose of analyzing metaphors in a text?

• To provide a personal opinion about a text

• To summarize the plot of a text

• To compare and contrast different texts

• To analyze their meaning and significance

What is the benefit of gaining a deeper understanding of the author's intentions?

• To memorize the text

• To read faster

• To skip over important details

• To understand the themes and ideas presented in the text