1. Strategies for Getting What You Need
Reading with Purpose
Strategies for Getting What You Need

2. How Can Reading Make Us Good Writers?
become familiar with many different writing styles
learn how to get the best information out of each source
learn how audience and context affect how writers write

3. Reading for Different Purposes
Reading critically and comprehensively
Skimming
Scanning
Do some quick skimming and scanning demos

4. Reading Critically & Comprehensively
Identify the main message.
Identify supporting details.
Determine the author’s point of view.
Separate the author’s views from your own.
Think through the arguments and conclusions.
Begin to construct your own writing.
Use Brian Green’s “The Enemy in the Mirror” instead of McNerney.

5. An Essay on Sustainability by Brian Green
What does this essay say?
What do you think its purpose is?
What makes it a good essay?
How can this essay help save the environment?
VOCAB
disposal
ingenuity
maraud
indolence
ruthless
curb (v)
culprit
ballyhoo
enable
guzzle

6. Making Your Own Meaning
Write a summary: what is this essay about, and what does it say? list the key subject and purpose of each paragraph. Try to be brief but clear and accurate. If you think visually, try drawing your summary and listing a few key words to help explain.

7. Making Your Own Meaning
Read between the lines: share the impressions you have of the author’s point of view based on the tone and word choice in the essay. Be prepared to point out specific phrases or sentences that give you your impressions.

8. Making Your Own Meaning
Find the meaning by investigating features:
Where could this photo be from? What do you think happened?
What makes you say that?

9. Chart your ideas:
What happened?
Why do we think that?

10. What’s It Called? Find the title by investigating:
What might Brian Green’s essay be called?
What makes you say that?
Record what you notice throughout the essay - quote words or phrases.
Explain what you think each is or means or does. Based on what you find overall, guess the title of the essay.

11. Chart your ideas:
Title?
Why do we think that?

12. Write It Out
What’s it called? Write me a brief paragraph, explaining what you think the title of this essay is and why. Give details to help explain.