Page 4 - SpringBoard_CloseReading_Workshop_Grade6_Flipbook

Second Reading: vocabulary in Context
Now that you have read the passage silently, listen and follow along as your teacher reads the passage aloud. As you read along with your teacher, circle words and/
or phrases (other than the underlined words) that you do not know or that you
feel are important to the meaning of the passage. Diffuse these words/phrases for comprehension.
Check your Understanding
1. Pair with another student and choose six words from the words you have circled
or that are underlined. Using context clues and reference resources, try to determine the meaning of the words. As needed, reread the sentences using your understanding of the words to confirm what the passage means.
2. Choose two or three of the words you have examined that you think are significant to understanding the passage. Use the words in sentences as part of a summary explaining the central ideas in the passage and explaining how these words contribute to your understanding of the passage.
Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Now read the passage again, this time with the focus of reading to respond to the Key Ideas and Details interpretive questions. As your class discusses the text, write your responses to each question and highlight or underline the textual evidence that supports your answer. During discussions, you may also want to annotate the text to record a new or different meaning of the text.
Background Information: This passage is an excerpt from the autobiographical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, published in 1974. The book is a record of a physical and spiritual journey the author took with his son Chris as they traveled by motorcycle from Minnesota to Northern California.
From
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you’re always in a compartment, and because you’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.
key ideas and deTails
According to Pirsig, how is traveling by car like watching TV?
Close Reading Workshop 1 • Close Reading of Informational/Literary Nonfiction Texts 3
© 2017 College Board. All rights reserved.