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Close and Critical Reading

The document provides guidance for close and critical reading by posing questions about the main ideas, organization, point of view, meaning, and application of a text. The questions are grouped into sections on summarizing the text, determining its structure and craft, understanding its meaning, and applying it personally.

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Close and Critical Reading

The document provides guidance for close and critical reading by posing questions about the main ideas, organization, point of view, meaning, and application of a text. The questions are grouped into sections on summarizing the text, determining its structure and craft, understanding its meaning, and applying it personally.

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Close and Critical Reading

Name of Text:_________________________________________

Author: ______________________________________________

WHAT DOES THE TEXT SAY? NOTES and EVIDENCE


Guiding Questions for
Summary/Restatement/Retelling

● How would you summarize or ●


determine a shortened version of
the text containing only the main
points?

● What is the gist/central idea? ●

● What are the most important ●


ideas/events?

How DOES THE TEXT SAY IT? NOTES and EVIDENCE


Guiding Questions to Determine
Craft and Structure of the Text

● How is the information organized ●


(e.g. time, topic, cause/effect,
compare/contrast, persuasion)?

● What genre does the selection


represent? ●

● From what point of


view/perspective is this written? ●
WHAT DOES THE TEXT MEAN? NOTES and EVIDENCE
Guiding Questions to Determine
What the Text Means

● What is the central


idea/thesis/theme of the text? ●

● What is the author's ●


stance/perspective towards the
topic?
●
● What does the author want the
reader to believe?
WHAT DOES THE TEXT MEAN TO NOTES and EVIDENCE
ME?
Guiding Questions for Application

● How does this relate to my life? ●

● What were my feelings when I ●


read this?

● How does this apply to the world? ●

SUMMARY OF PASSAGE

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