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2 Reading 17
ACTIVITY What Are You Reading? 18 ACTIVITY Making an Interpretation of Fiction 43
Garry Newman, Why My Videogame Chooses
Contents
Active Reading 19 Your Character’s Race and Gender for You 43
What Do Active Readers Do? 20 ACTIVITY Making an Interpretation of
Before Reading 20 Nonfiction 44
While Reading 20
After Reading 21 Reading for Style: Why Was This Text
Created in the Way It Was? 45
ACTIVITY Active Reading
Daniel Levitin, Want to learn faster? Stop Style and Tone 45
multitasking and start daydreaming 21 John Gould Fletcher, In the City of Night 46
May Swenson, from October 23 Claude McKay, The Tropics in New York 46
Reading Challenges 23 ACTIVITY Reading for Tone 47
Contextual Challenges 24 Elements of Style 47
Word-Level Challenges 26 Diction 47
Sentence-Level Challenges 27 Syntax 48
ACTIVITY Reading Challenges Figurative Language 50
Katrina Miller, Mystery Solved: How Plant Imagery 50
Cells Know When to Stop Growing 28 William Wordsworth, from The Daffodils 51
Reading for Understanding: What Connecting Style to Meaning 51
Is This Text Saying? 30 Jimmy Santiago Baca, from Coming into
ACTIVITY Reading Nonfiction for Language 51
Understanding ACTIVITY Style, Tone, and Meaning 53
Farhad Manjoo, Abolish Billionaires 32
Billy Collins, Flames 35 Reading Visual Texts 54
ACTIVITY Reading Literature for Visual Elements of Style 56
Understanding Analyzing a Visual Text 56
Carrie Vaughn, Alchemy 36 Analyzing Charts and Graphs 57
Reading for Interpretation: What Ideas Visual Texts and Tone 58
ACTIVITY Reading Visual Texts
Give the Text Significance? 37
Mindbodygreen, Highest Carbon Footprints
What Does It Mean to Interpret? 38 (infographic) 59
The Brothers Grimm, from Cinderella 40 Edvard Munch, Separation (painting) 60

culminating activity Reading for Academic Purposes
Kevin Leahy, Simple Physics 61
Ifeanyi Nsofor, Africans Mourn Chadwick Boseman: “A Great Tree Has Fallen” 62

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