Pick up the three handouts on the table. Sit at your assigned desk number. If you forgot, see me. Prep for your presentation of your Journey Into Literacy.

Objective & Purpose In small groups, present your journey into literacy. Practice speaking clearly and listening intently to your peers. Get to know each other!

Anticipatory Set Recall a dream that you can remember in detail. What do you think this dream meant?

Objective & Purpose Write a short summary of the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury: what is literally happening? Then write an interpretation of what the author is trying to communicate about the significance of these events. What does the _________ represent, or why is it important. Practice specific reading purposes: reading for understanding and reading to interpret.

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? Now that we have practiced reading actively and have worked through some of the common reading challenges you might face, it’s time to put those skills to use for specific reading purposes.

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? Anytime you encounter a text, your first purpose needs to be reading to understand what a text is saying.

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? The goal of reading for understanding is to be able to Summarize the text, which means understanding the Main Idea Supporting Details

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? Summary=main idea + supporting details A paragraph or short excerpt often has a single main idea with two or more supporting details. Longer works can have multiple, related main ideas.

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? Ask yourself: What is the most important idea in the work?

Reading for Understanding: What is the text saying? What is the title of the piece? If it does not have one, what is a title you could give the text, or what would be a new title? What are words or phrases that are repeated throughout the text? What is the text mostly about? What are the most important and relevant details intended to illustrate the main idea? What details does the author focus on? Where does the author spend a lot of his or her time? Who, what, where, when, and why?

AOW Guess the Headline: Window Quote: Things I’ve learned:

Reading Literature for Understanding What is the text about? Main Idea Summary is accurate and literal Once you have main idea, you should then summarize some of the most important details. **The goal of demonstrating an understanding of a piece of literature is to be as accurate as possible of what actually occurs in the text, free from opinion or interpretation.

Reading Literature for Understanding “There Will Come Soft Rains” focuses on (the idea of) _________________. In the story, _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas give the text significance? What the text says, literally  what the text means—its significance. Significance=ideas that give us insight into ourselves, the world around us, or the author’s message.

AOW Based off your list of the things you learned from the article, write 2-3 claims on the author’s message.

Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas give the text significance? What the text says, literally  what the text means—its significance. Significance+ ideas that give us insight into ourselves, the world around us, or the author’s message.

Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas give the text significance? Interpretation and Context Who, what, where, when, and why

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Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas give the text significance? Inference= a conclusion drawn by looking at many pieces of evidence Theme=meaning of a literary work.

Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas give the text significance? How do we interpret literature? The Method: patterns, contrast, repetitions, anomalies. How does it relate to the meaning of the story? Signposts: Contrasts and contradictions, again and again, other? What is the purpose of the contrast/contradiction, the again and again, etc.? How does it relate to the meaning of the story? Literary elements: allusion, symbolism, setting, character. How is it important to the overall meaning? Title. What is its significance? Plot—significance of events. What do the events represent or suggest?

Objective & Purpose Write a short summary of the short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury: what is literally happening? Then write an interpretation of what the author is trying to communicate about the significance of these events. What does the _________ represent, or why is it important. Practice specific reading purposes: reading for understanding and reading to interpret.