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Introducing the Strategy: Questioning the Text
A strategy for thinking actively and interpretively about your reading is to ask questions. As you read any text, you can ask questions that aid your understanding with different levels of ideas.
• Literal questions (Level 1): You can answer questions on the literal level by looking to the text directly.
Example: What kind of car does Mrs. Fisher drive?
• Interpretive questions (Level 2): You cannot find answers to interpretive questions directly in the text; however, textual evidence points to and supports your answers.
Example: What emotions does Paul feel as he remembers the incident with the mailbox?
• Universal questions (Level 3): These questions go beyond the text. They require you to think about the larger issues or ideas raised by a text.
Example: Is it possible that people who are visually impaired can see some things more clearly than people who can see perfectly?
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Roots and Affixes
The word literal contains the root -liter- from the Latin word littera, meaning “letter.” This root also appears in literacy, literature, and alliteration.
Interpretive contains the root interpret, which means “to come to an understanding.”
Universal contains the Latin prefix uni-, meaning “one,” and the root -ver-, meaning “turn.” The root -ver- appears in reverse, adversary, introvert, vertigo, and conversation.
The suffix -al indicates an 4. Write three questions, one of each type, about the prologue to Tangerine. adjective.
Literal:
Interpretive: my Notes Universal:
5. Collaborative Discussion: Remember to follow group norms about discussions, speaking clearly, listenting carefully, and allowing each person a turn to question and respond.
Share your levels of questions with a small group of peers and ask them to respond to each. After all group members have shared and responded to one another’s three questions, discuss how the questions and responses helped each of you come to a new understanding. Which questions were the easiest to answer, and which were the most difficult? Which questions led to the most interesting and informative discussions?
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