1. Unit 2
What’s Next

2. Focus on Reading Making Inferences Tips for making inferences
Inferences: Using prior knowledge to add to an idea, or figure something out.
Tips for making inferences
Pay attention to detail
Look at both written and visual clues
Make reasonable guesses

3. Making Inferences Why make inferences? When to make inferences
Making inferences helps you combine the information you already know, to what is happening in the text.
This helps you increase your understanding and draw conclusions.
When to make inferences
Before reading: Helps set goals and establish purpose
During reading: Helps improve understanding of issues and themes
After reading Helps interpret the text and improve understanding

4. Ask Questions
Asking questions before, during, and after reading can help you:
Clarify confusing vocabulary and meaning
Deepen your understanding of a text
Three types of questions:
Literal Questions: asks about information that is directly stated
Inferential Questions: Asks about what is implied as well as directly stated
Evaluative Questions: Asks about the ideas in the text, drawing on the text and your own ideas

5. Focus on Form: Identifying The Features of Graphic Text
Graphic Text: Any text that presents ideas and information using visual features.
Visual features may include:
Charts
Tables
Timelines
Photos
Drawings

6. Focus on Form: Identifying The Features of Graphic Text
Graphic texts are used for many purposes:
Inform
Explain
Persuade
Entertain
Tell a story

7. Focus on Form: Identifying The Features of Graphic Text
Steps to reading a graphic text:
Scan the whole document to get an overall impression.
What is the authors purpose? Who is the audience?
2. What features attract the most attention?
Why does the author want you to notice these?
3. Pay attention to information in graphs, charts, and maps
Make sure you understand these

8. Focus on Form: Identifying The Features of Graphic Text
4. Examine photos and illustrations
How do they connect to the document? What ideas do they convey? Do they tell a story?
5. Look for graphic cues like arrows, symbols or lines that help you find to movement or direction of important information
6. Identify how the graphic features are connected to each other and to the words in the text

9. Focus on Form: Identifying The Features of Graphic Text
Important tip for reading graphic texts:
Words have great importance in graphic texts take time to pay special attention to how they are presented.
Their size, color, and punctuation marks allow you to infer how those features influence meaning

10. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Media: Tools used to store and deliver information or data.
There are several different media forms
Media Form
Print
Magazine, newspaper, ads, posters, billboards, book covers
Oral
Radio programs, music, interviews
Visual
Paintings, photos, photo essays
Electronic
Websites, podcasts, TV shows, text messages, pop-up ads.

11. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Effective media texts are created when producers combine a wide variety of elements that appeal to a specific audience.
Certain media texts arrange their elements in specific ways to achieve their purpose:
Print Media Text
Some Common Elements and How They are Used
Magazine
Covers with a large title and short subheadings. Organized in sections. Graphics
Newspaper
Organized in sections, articles editorials, letters, ads… eye catching photos
Graphic Novel
Cells or frames, text bubbles, narration, color and shading
Poster
Strong visual, short text, fonts, font size, logo, slogan.

12. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Steps to analyze the effectiveness of a media text:
Consider the purpose of the text. How are the elements used to achieve the purpose
Consider the intended audience. Will the elements appeal to the intended audience
Evaluate how effectively the individual elements work together how will the audience respond to the media text? Is that the response the media producers desired?

13. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Practice:
What form of media text is the image an example of?
Poster
What is the purpose of the image?
To persuade people to see the movie
Who is the audience?
Fans of the series, adults, people who enjoy sci-fi movies…
How effectively do the elements work together?
A strong visual of the characters accompanied by interesting title, and a short text description. This would be a fairly effective poster.

14. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Practice:
What form of media text is the image an example of?
Comic
What is the purpose of the image?
To entertain
Who is the audience?
Potentially anyone who enjoys Garfield
How effectively do the elements work together?
Cells are used to show movement through the plot, text bubbles are used effectively to show dialogue, colour and shading are used appropriately. It is entertaining… This is an effective text

15. Focus on Media: Analyze Media Elements
Practice:
What form of media text is the image an example of?
Magazine
What is the purpose of the image?
To inform people of celebrity activity, sell items in ads entertain…
Who is the audience?
Teens who are interested in celebrities…
How effectively do the elements work together?
Interesting cover with many sub headings that list content, and strong attention grabbing photos
This is a fairly effective magazine cover