The Art of Close Reading (Part Two) Linda Elder and Richard Paul In the previous article we introduced the idea of close reading, which is reading with an emphasis on: understanding your purpose in reading    understanding the author’s purpose...

The Art of Close Reading (Part One) To read well requires one to develop one’s thinking about reading and, as a result, to learn how to engage in the process of what we call close reading. Students not only need to learn how to determine whether a text is worth reading, but...

Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies Most of us are not what we could be. We are less. We have great capacity. But most of it is dormant; most is undeveloped. Improvement in thinking is like improvement in basketball, in ballet, or in playing the saxophone. It...

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Proverbs and sayings (quotes) on topics Books and writers. 1. You can’t tell a book by its cover. 2. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. J. Bacon. 3. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. R. Steele. 4. All books are divisible...

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The Scanning Game Task 1.Scan the information in “ Important Steps in the Development of Mass Communications.” Answer the questions as quickly as you can. 1) Which items are about newspapers? 2) Which items are about paper making? 3) How many items are about the movies? 4) Which items are about the...

                   BOOKS AND WRITERS       Put the dialogue in the right order. ------ I like to read adventure books. ------ Who is your favourite writer? ------ What kind of books do you like to read? ------ Of course, I am. ------...

        Word – combinations  1.  come to the conclusion that 2.  conduct an experiment 3.  conduct research 4.  do an experiment 5.  do research 6.  keep a record of 7.  field of research 8.  win the Nobel prize 9.  make a...