Analyze means to separate something into parts to understand how all the parts make a whole.
There are two guiding ideas for analysis:
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Show Me.
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Point out what you think are the significant or important details in the featured topic or text.
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So What?
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What is the importance of each detail? What effect does the detail create? How does it shape the reader’s response? How does it work with other details to create effects and shape the reader’s response?
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The purpose of analyzing is to explore a topic to gain a deeper understanding. In the case of analyzing text, it is important to understand what the text says and why the author chose to say it that way. It is about author's craft and text structure. Text analysis requires strategy and engagement on the part of the students as well as the teacher.
Deep reading, text-dependent questions, and teaching students to uncover the mysteries of texts leads our students to become more critical readers. Because they are doing the work of analyzing the text, the expectations of the common core are that students will become more critical consumers of texts in their college and careers—areas of their lives when they will not have teachers around to impart the secrets of texts to them before they read.
This kind of reading also relates to the writing expectations of the common core standards that require students to deeply analyze texts, to identify the author’s explicit argument and claims to support it. If students are being asked to “read like detectives,” they are being asked to “write like investigative reporters,” which means building their own arguments in response to texts.
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video: Analyze
Framework for Analysis
Text Annotation and Close Reading
Close Reading Task.variety.docx
It Says I Say So.docx (inferring)
Text Structure Graphic Organizers
Text-Dependent Questions
Overview
Guide to Creating Questions for Close Analytic Reading.rev.pdf
Guide to Writing Questions
Model text and completed guide
Read Like A...Historian
Novice vs Expert Readers of Historical Text
Document Analysis Protocols
Questioning the Author Website
Questioning the Author sample
Read Like a Reader/Writer
Overview of Reading Like a Reader/Writer
Analyzing Informational Text
Reading Like a Poet
Question Like An Investigative Reporter
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