 Objective:
In the last lesson you evaluated the author's reasons and
ideas, made generalizations and drew conclusions about those
reasons and ideas. In this lesson you just add some stretch
to those skills, and apply generalizations or conclusions
to situations outside the informational text itself. Here
is where you draw on other things you know and make connections
between what you read and life. It is where you see the threads
connecting what you read to your great big world. It is where
you respond to the reasons and ideas in the text and apply
them to yourself and to life!
This lesson requires your own understanding, analysis, evaluation
of what the author is saying to you, and also asks for your
own input, ideas and response to what the author is saying.
Your ideas are important and the connections you make with
the author's ideas are what make reading relevant, meaningful
and rich!
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Review the meaning of evaluating
ideas, drawing conclusions, and making generalizations.
- Identify strategies to help you extend reasons
and ideas beyond the article, news report, essay or other
information text.
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Practice making connections of
reasons, ideas, conclusions, generalizations from the
text to your life.
- Practice responding to reasons, ideas, conclusions,and
generalizations from the text.
- Score and evaluate
your answers.
Vocabulary:
These words will be used in this lesson. They might be quite
familiar to you, or you might want some review. For review,
just click the Tools tab and open Vocabulary.
| Evaluate (decide, judge) |
Generalization |
Conclusion |
Tips and Tools:
If you have completed Lesson 19, you will be familiar with
the concepts of evaluating, making generalizations, and drawing
conclusions. There is just one addition to make:
Extending ideas from the story to a bigger arena:
Life!
Questions
to think about to make connections between an informational
passage and your life:
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What do I already know about the topic
I am reading?
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Often informational passages relate to
history or science. Have I ever studied anything similar
to what I am reading?
- How do my experiences and what I know relate to the text
I am reading?
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Have I ever been in a similar situation,
or faced a similar conflict? What was it? How did I resolve
it? Did I act/think in the way the author describes?
- What would I do if I were in the same situation? How would
I act? What would I say?
- Who is the intended audience? How do you know? How does
the author tell you about the audience? How is the text
effective for the intended audience?
- In what way is this text easy or hard to understand? Explain.
- What organizational pattern was used to develop this text?
Was the organizational pattern effective? Explain. (See
TOOLS in the menu bar to review "Organizational
Patterns of Informational / Technical Texts.")
- What factual inforamtion was provided? What opinions were
expressed? How do you know this?
- What is the author's purpose for writing the text? How
does the author achieve this purpose?
- How does the author use language? Is it biased? Does it
appeal to the emotions? Is it logical? Is it precise? Is
it connotative or denotative? Is it descriptive? Explain.
- What one word would you use to describe this text? Explain.
- What one thing stands out in your mind after reading the
text?
- How have your opinions / ideas changed because of what
you read?
Basically, you are saying, "I recognize
that action, thought, lesson, situation, feeling!"
and actively making a connection between the
ideas in a passage and what has happened to you
or someone you know or something you know about.
You are extending the author's ideas from the story
to a bigger picture - human behavior and life.
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In the next section, you'll see some examples of how the Tips
and Tools will help you extend ideas from informational
text to real life.
Example
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