Reading Strategy: After Each Paragraph, Choose 1

When you read challenging texts, you automatically either 1)summarize in your head 2)ask yourself a question 3) make a prediction or 4)demand clarity

Here's what that means: when reading a challenging text, you need to stop after each paragragraph, or few paragraphs, and use a combination of the following strategies (like we did in class with Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress today!!!!):

1. Summarizing / Self-Review
From what we've read so far, I can tell that...

2. Ask a Question / Self-Testing
Literal: Who calls the violin a "wiolin"?
Interpretive: What is Luo trying to do when he points out that he and the Seamstress share a common 'foot trait'?
Analytical: Who does the Seamstress like better? Why does she like him better?
Applied: What human emotions inspire fear?

3. Predicting / Setting the Stage for Further Reading
Based on...... and what I have read so far, I predict...

4. Demanding Clarity / Breaking Down the Text
I need some clarification about... I am guessing it is...

* Add these strategies to your stock of post-it annotation ideas!