Critical Reading Strategies
How frequently do you read for yourself, or require reading of your students? My guess is......... every day. It's easy to look like you're reading, and once learned it is easy to decode and put the letters together. However, reading is more than that. Critical reading is an important learning skill and life skill! Reading is about more than getting through a sequence of letters and words. Critical reading is vital to figuring out what an author is trying to say, and analyzing the main argument(s) being presented. Critical readers evaluate and analyze to advance their understanding!
In a world where we are surrounded by digital media from all different sources, most individuals, especially students take what they read anywhere on the internet as completely credible. Critical reading can help foster critical thinkers that look for an author's interpretation, inconsistencies, and things that are missing - not just take a something they read at face value.
Explore the various resources, printouts, and videos below to help support critical reading below:
In a world where we are surrounded by digital media from all different sources, most individuals, especially students take what they read anywhere on the internet as completely credible. Critical reading can help foster critical thinkers that look for an author's interpretation, inconsistencies, and things that are missing - not just take a something they read at face value.
Explore the various resources, printouts, and videos below to help support critical reading below:
What is critical reading?
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The following questions could be used to hold students accountable for their reading or to challenge them to critically think about the ideas in a text. Students could answer the questions in short answer format, you could provide multiple-choice answers for each question you ask, or you could use the questions to engage students in meaningful discussions about a text.