1. So What? (What’s important to understand about this?)
Text Analysis
Key Topic
is about…
Main Idea
Main Idea
Main Idea
Essential Evidence
Essential Evidence
Essential Evidence
Secondary Source/Informational
So What? (What’s important to understand about this?)

2. Reading Question Forms: Multiple Choice Questions
1. Details
might include characteristics of a person, place, or thing, or a particular date, others may ask you about subtly stated or minor details you have to look deeper for
2. Main Ideas
determine the focus of a passage or a paragraph, or paragraphs in a passage.
5. Generalizations
take a lot of information and boil it down to a concise form. May involve interpreting mood, tone, or character, make a general observation or draw a conclusion.
3. Comparative Relationships
ask you to make comparisons and contrasts in passages that contain multiple points of view.
4. Cause and Effect Relationships
may ask you about the influence of different characters actions to evaluate or explain a process, information may be provided in the passage or have to be put together with the given details.
6. Author’s Voice and Structure
voice relates to author’s style, attitude, and point of view. Structure focuses on craft of writing, and main purpose of writing.
8. Sequence of Events
determine order of information or when things occur in a passage.
7. Meaning of Words
determine from content what a particular word, phrase, or statement means from how it is used or what information surrounds it.

3. Visualization- Using pictures and images to help understand what you read.
Prediction- Making and educated guess based on information you have read about what will happen next in your reading.
Questioning- Asking questions about what you read to help gain more knowledge and have a better understanding.
Summarizing- Retelling or restating what you have read to help understand your reading.
Connections- Using real life situations to relate to ideas or situations that come up in your reading.
Reading Strategies

4. Questions to Use to Help Interpret a Reading Passage
What is the topic or subject of the text?
What is the main idea?
What are key details?
What is the basic structure?
What is explicitly known and what can be implicitly understood from the text?
Are there any examples of sensory or figurative (e.g. metaphor) language?
Questions to Use to Help Interpret a Reading Passage

5. OPTIC – primary source visual analysis tool
Overview
What is happening in the picture? Summarize the “action” of the visual without analyzing its meaning yet. P
Parts
Break the picture down into sections. Describe the placement of objects on the canvas. Name everything that you see. Describe color, lighting, and movement in the picture. T
Title/Theme/Tone
What does the title tell you about the picture? How much does it add to what you understand or do not understand about the picture? Explain your answers. What themes does the picture reflect and in what ways? What is the author’s attitude toward the subject? Use your tone worksheet! I
Interrelation
Analyze the relationships in the picture. How do objects or people or colors relate to each other in the picture? What clues to the message or argument are these relationships giving you? What seems to be the most important “relationship” in the picture? C
Conclusion
Draw a conclusion to the meaning or message of the picture based on what you have viewed and discussed as a group. Essentially, what is the argument the artist is trying to convey?

6. SOAPSTone – source analysis tool
Subject
What is the content and subject of the document? How do you know?
Occasion
What local, regional, and/or global events prompted the author to create this piece? What events led to its creation?
AUDIENCE
Purpose
Who was the likely audience for this piece? Who was it created for? What assumptions can you make about the audience? How does the author use language to reach their audience?
Is the purpose to explain, inform, entertain, persuade, or share feelings? How is the speaker trying to spark a reaction from the audience? How is the document communicated?
Tone
Speaker
What words describe the attitude of the speaker? What is the author’s mood and how its it conveyed? For what purpose? How is this mood supposed to make the reader feel?
Who is telling the story? What inferences can you make about this person?

7. Descriptive Organizer/Main Idea
Topic
Details
Reading SSA Comprehension
Main Idea Sentence

8. Observation Graphic Organizer
Who?
Why?
EVENT
When?
How?
Where?
What?
SSA – comprehension (textbook)
In Conclusion…

9. The Basic Steps of SQ3R SURVEY
This pre-reading activity activates prior knowledge about the topic. It teaches you to look over the entire reading assignment before reading it carefully. Students first survey the text for the following elements:
Titles, Subtitles, Headings, Table of Contents, Introduction, Summary, Pictures, Captions, Marginal Notes, Questions at the end of the selection, Unknown vocabulary
READ
As you read, relate the selection to what you already know, correct any misconceptions about the topic, and find information to answer your questions.
RECITE
After reading the selection, answer your questions to assess what you remember and understand. This process might include:
Self-Talk, Class Discussions, Outlining/Note Taking, Underlining/Highlighting answers in text.
SSA comprehension
QUESTION
Questions help you focus on significant points and monitor their reading. You should generate questions about your topic before you read by turning headings and subheadings into questions.
For example, if the title of the selection is “Events that Led to World War II” readings might ask, “What events led to WWII?”
REVIEW
You can go back over the reading to build retention for a longer period of time. This also provides an opportunity for you to clarify, expand upon, or learn more about the questions you answered unsatisfactorily.

10. Talk to the Text
What is the STRUCTURE? What is the CONTEXT? What is the AUTHOR’S PURPOSE? What are YOUR QUESTIONS? What are YOUR REACTIONS? What are YOUR CONNECTIONS?
SSA – comprehension?

11. How to be a good reader
Preview – Look at the cover and title, look at some of the pictures and read some of the text.
Question – Ask who, what, when, where, why, and how; determine if what you’ve read makes sense.
Predict – Wonder about what will happen next; make guesses and read ahead to find out if your predictions are correct.
Infer – Imagine the details; use what you’ve read to understand what the author means.
Connect – relate what you’ve read to what you know and to your thoughts and feelings; compare what you’ve read to other texts and the world around you.
Summarize – Organize and connect the details; draw your own conclusions.
Evaluate – Think about what you’ve read. What did you learn? Was it important to you? Why or why not? Did you like it? Why or why not?
SSA Comprehension? Historiography?

12. SOLLIDD Analyzing rhetorical elements and author’s style
The structure of sections within a passage and as a whole. Movement in the passage between tones, ideas, defining literary/rhetorical strategies
Syntax
Sentence structure
Organization
Literary Devices
Metaphor, simile, personification, irony (situational, verbal and dramatic), hyperbole, allusion, alliteration, etc.
Levels of Discourse
Cultural levels of language act, with attendant traits (does the narrator’s voice represent a particular social, political, or cultural viewpoint or perspective?)
Imagery
Diction
Deliberate vivid appeal to the audience’s understanding through the five senses (visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, gustatory)
Word choice and its denotative and connotative significance
Detail
Descriptive items selected for inclusion.
Concrete aspects of the poem or passage. What is included; what is omitted