Sometimes Reading for school can seem like a

with just the writer doing all the communicating,

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But effective reading is really like a conversation between the reader and writer:

 

Reading is a 2-way street

Through the conversation readers pull in information the author put into the text and makes sense of it using their prior knowledge.

What do you mean?

Sometimes, a passage from a text will be loud and clear to you—as if the author is shouting. (the author tends to do most of the work

when she or he is shouting)

(Hint:shouts are the information that we often find on comprehension tests.)

Look…

Sometimes, an author whispers to the reader –this is information that is not so obvious to the reader—(in this type of conversation, the reader tends to do a lot more work. )

Do you hear that?

What’s that I hear??

These whispers can shed light on what the author says and does

It also helps us go beyond these aspects and critically construct understanding about the text and its author

Hearing what the author whispers is what we often call reading between the lines

You can easily multiply the knowledge you construct from and about a text by reading inferentially

Some of this extra knowledge is vital for critically analyzing a text and the ideology that helped produce it.

So what?

Building up your writing

Meeting Faculty expectations:

Quality & quantity Being able to

articulate and support your claims

Having something to say about a text/author you might be uninterested in, unfamiliar with and bored by…

(whisper: there’s no excuses!!!)

What else?

Whose responsible?Since reading and writing form conversations, all participants share responsibility for:

ClarityHonestyAccounting for error, misinformation, biases, etc

The quality of Information…

Start with opposites

Shout:“I’m a registered Republican”

Whisper: Person is not a registered Democrat

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Make probable - -not certain inferences based on PK of Party Ideologies

Wants strong military Wants Low taxes