How to Peel a Text like an Onion
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This document provides guidance on asking meaningful questions about texts at different levels: literal, interpretive, and beyond the text. Literal questions can be answered directly from the text by pointing to details about who, what, when, where, and recalling facts. Interpretive questions require peeling back further layers to understand significance, meaning, comparisons, inferences, and predictions. Beyond the text questions are not specific to one text but bring up broader ideas and connections.
How to Peel a Text like an Onion
- 2. How do I Ask meaningful
- 3. Literal Questions Right There Q’s • Point to answer in Text • Who? What? When? Where? • RECALL details of Text
- 4. Interpretation Q’s Peel beyond first layer of text • Can’t point to answer in one place in text • Ask Why? or How? • What is…significance or meaning? • Compare—How’s this similar to…? • Ask you to Interpret, Infer, Predict
- 5. Beyond theText Q’s Peel to core! • Q. NOT specifically connected to one particular text • Bring up BIG IDEAS • Make connections
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- 8. dig more from your reading
- 9. Flip through the next slides to see if you can name the layer of each questions.
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