Critical Reading Option 2

🥾"Print" (CTRL+P) one of the sources you found during your research as a PDF.

💡 Try to save it to your folder for this class - that way you won't have to "move" it later!

🥾 Use the highlighting tool in Kami to:

• Evaluate the main ideas or themes (ELA.1.2)

  • Highlight and comment on the most relevant and important examples of the main idea/claim/theme and what you think/feel about that information.

  • Highlight and comment on how this information relates to other things you've read or experienced.

  • Highlight and comment on how well the main idea/claim/theme was developed throughout the piece.

• Analyze context, point of view, and purpose (ELA.1.3)

  • Highlight and comment on whether there is any bias evident in the passage and what that bias might be.

  • Highlight and comment on the points of view presented in the passage and what may be "missing" from this discussion.

  • Highlight and comment on how different audiences may experience this information differently from me and why.

• Analyze craft (ELA.1.4)

  • Highlight and comment on how the text's structure (including paragraph length, sentence complexity, and vocabulary) helps make it harder or easier for me to understand the passage. 

💡 Keep a tab open with Google or a dictionary app, in case you encounter any words or concepts that are particularly challenging (or interesting).

• • Highlight and comment on any literary devices or clever turns of phrase that catch my eye and make the passage more interesting to read.

• Choose and apply reading strategies (ELA.1.1)

  • When you've finished reading the passage, comment on your overall reaction to the source and what reading strategies helped you make meaning of it.