Scholar Zone Tips (cont.)
What It Is
How to Analyze
Make Predictions
Guesses about what’s going to happen, based on what’s happened so far and your own ideas
Ask yourself: • If you’re in the middle of a narrative, stop and ask yourself what you think is going to happen. • Or if the author asks a question, see if you can figure out the answer. • When you find out what happens, look back to see whether there were clues—there aren’t always! Ask yourself: • What’s wrong? Identify the problem described in the article. (The problem is usually presented at the beginning of the article.) • What is being done? Identify how people are trying to solve the problem. (These solutions are usually described in the middle of an article.) • Was the problem solved? How? (The resolution usually comes at the end of the article.) Ask yourself: • What happened first? • What did that lead to? • What happened after that? • After reading a complicated sequence of events, reread to make sure you’ve understood. Ask yourself: • What are the most important details? • Check. Are there any unimportant details you can leave out? • Use your own words to tell what the text is mostly about.
Problem and Solution
When an article is structured around a problem that one or more people are trying to solve
Sequence of Events
Identifying the most important steps of a process in the correct order
Summarize
Retelling the article in your own words
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