Reading is a gift Reading is a gift Isora Enríquez O´Farrill, PhD.

Aim: - Use reading strategies for understanding texts

Useful reading strategies ( before, while & after reading… ) Asking questions Asking questions Previewing Previewing Finding main ideas Finding main ideas Making a story outline Making a story outline Paraphrasing Paraphrasing Predicting Predicting

Reading strategies Reading for specific information ScanningSummarizing Taking notes in a chart Using context Making inferences

Tips for reading literature Look for main ideas Look for Clues - Setting, Characters - Tone & Style of Writing - Emotions or Senses being Used - Actions and responses to the action - Conflict - Resolution of the Conflict - Theme

Understanding figurative language Determine literal meaning (what the words state). Connonative meaning ( hidden meaning through emotional associations, description or comparison).

Metaphors… comparing two different things using the verb "to be.“ E.g. "The earth is a blue marble spinning through space". E.g. "The earth is a blue marble spinning through space". A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare things.

Hyperbole uses words to create an exaggerated meaning to emphasize something. "I nearly died laughing”. Personification gives human characteristics to a thing, an idea or an animal. "The sky looked down on us.“ Idioms. Words or phrases that defy translation. If the sentence, "He's driving me up the wall,"

Figurative language is sometimes associated with sound Alliteration. A consonant used multiple times in a sentence, such as, "Laura lazily lollygagged on the lawn." Assonance. The vowel is repeated, as in "We meet each week on Fleet Street." Onomatopoeia uses words that sound like the meanings they represent. Some examples are "buzz", "tick."

Your turn

Edgar Allan Poe Poe was born in Massachusetts, the son of traveling actors David and Elizabeth Arnold Poe. His mother died when he was two and his father was an alcoholic, so Poe went to live with a prosperous Scottish tobacco merchant, John Allan, in Richmond. Allan always refused to adopt Poe which led to bad feeling between the two of them.

A Valentine For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure Divine- a talisman- an amulet... For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure Divine- a talisman- an amulet...

As you read, identify Figurative language

A Valentine For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure Divine- a talisman- an amulet... For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure Divine- a talisman- an amulet...

For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines!- they hold a treasure Divine- a talisman- an amulet

That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure- The words- the syllables! Do not forget The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor And yet there is in this no Gordian knot Which one might not undo without a sabre, If one could merely comprehend the plot.

Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too, Its letters, although naturally lying Like the knight Pinto- Mendez Ferdinando- Still form a synonym for Truth- Cease trying! You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too, Its letters, although naturally lying Like the knight Pinto- Mendez Ferdinando- Still form a synonym for Truth- Cease trying! You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do.

FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD

On Your Own

Anticipating vocabulary thy hour ( your hour) Soul, thy the wordless, the day erased, the day erased, the lesson done, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.

Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, on the West Hills of Long Island, New York. His mother, Louisa Van Velsor, of Dutch descent and Quaker faith, whom he adored, was barely literate. She never read his poetry, but gave him unconditional love. His father of English lineage, was a carpenter and builder of houses, and a stern disciplinarian.

A clear midnight This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars. Walt Whitman

Fragmento de la clase 97 de Martí

A: What are you next weekend ? B: Nothing exciting. A: Would like to go to the Havana Book Fair ! B: It sounds interesting.

A: Would you like to go to the bookstores downtown or to Morro Cabañas, in the outskirts of the city. B: I´d prefer Morro Cabañas. I´ve heard many Publishing Houses come to Havana for the fair. I´ve heard many Publishing Houses come to Havana for the fair.

A: That´s right. By the way, what genre do you prefer? Fiction or non fiction? Fiction or non fiction? B: I like history books, science fiction. A: I love adventures