Welcome to a course on Critical Reading presented by Carol Lewis, Lisa Rendon & Terry Whitton Please write your name on the index card and look over the student’s work samples as you await our presentation.

Critical Reading Essential Questions 1. Why do we need to focus on critical reading? 2. How do you see the critical reading strategies as a value to prepare students for college? 3. How could you use this strategy in your subject area?

Data 46% Ca freshmen enroll in remedial reading and writing 51% freshman unable to write competent summaries Calstate.edu/eap

5 Critical Reading Strategies 1. Rereading with Purpose  Multiple opportunity for deep reading  Skills development

2. Mark the text  Number the paragraphs  Circle key terms  Underline author’s claim  Finding and focusing on key information and textual features

3. Pause and Connect  Connect ideas within the text

4. Charting the text  Summarizing what the author(s) say  Explaining what the author is doing

5. Summarize the Text  Accurately account for author’s ideas  Accounting for writers choices

Procedures 1. Read silently 2. Number the paragraphs 3. Label left margin “Say” right side “Do” 4. Reread circling key words and underlining author’s claim (thesis statement) 5. Chart briefly what the author says and does for each paragraph 6. Share with a partner 7. Summarize

Report #12 of the Massachusetts School Board Moral Education By Horace Mann ( ) 1 Moral education is a primal necessity of social existence. The unrestrained passions of men are not only homicidal, but suicidal, and a community without a conscience would soon extinguish itself. Even with a natural conscience, evil often triumphs over good! As the relations of men became more complex, and the business of the world more extended, new opportunities and new temptations for wrong-doing have been created. With the endearing love of a family came also the possibility of murder within it. Following closely upon the obligation of telling truth came falsehood and perjury. With business came fraud, and the affairs between nations came aggression, war, and slavery. And so, as the relations of life became more numerous, and the interests of society more various, the range of offenses has been continually enlarging. Say Do

Charting Verbs for what the author is doing Arguing Comparing Contrasting Connecting Defining Debating Clarifying Concluding Explaining Illustrating Introducing Listing Offering Proving Questioning Stating Suggesting Summarizing Justifying Predicting

List of reading resources to use in the classroom Avid Weekly Newspaper in education Zite-free app Up Front Kelly Gallegher- article of the week Costco Connections

30 second expert Step 1 Write down what you know about the topic. Step 2 One person shares his or her thoughts while the other listens. You have 30 seconds to share. To your elbow partner, begin by saying, “ I am an expert on this topic because I know…” Step 3 The listener will summarize what he or she has heard. Begin the summary with “ According to” (insert name) and summarize what you heard. After the summary, ask, “ Did I get it right?” Step 4 Reverse roles. Speaker becomes listener and listener now speaks. Step 5 Be sure to thank your partner when you are finished. Step 6 Record any new knowledge in the right column. Topic or prompt 1. How do you see the critical reading strategies as a value to prepare students for college? 2. How could you use this strategy in your subject area? Partner’s Name:_______________________________ What do I know about this topic?What new knowledge or understanding have I gained from listening to my partner?

Closing Questions 1. How do you see the critical reading strategies as a value to prepare students for college? 2. How could you use this strategy in your subject area?