Welcome to KU120

Unit 9 Seminar

Intro to Reading Skills and Strategies

Instructor – Carrie Jantz

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Seminar Agenda1. Welcome

2. Tone

3. Purpose

4. Tone/Purpose Detective

5. Making Inferences

6. Analogy Challenge

7. Unit 9 Assignments

8. MRL Test

9. Questions

Course Map

Get to know RSS

course, syllabus, and each

other

Learn strategies for reading comp. and effective

study time

Unit 1 Units 2 - 4 Units 5 - 7 Units 8 - 9 Unit 10

Use these strategies

to read different types of writing

Learn how to identify

bias in writing

Reflect on and

discuss course

concepts

Mother to child:

1)Please sit at the table to eat your snack.

2)Don’t eat on the couch.

3)Do NOT eat on the couch.

4)Carrie A. Jantz, you get that food off of the couch right now or else!

What’s the Difference?

What are Your Impressions?

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t fee like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.”Holden Caufield in Salinger, J. (1962). The catcher in the rye. NY: The New American Library of World Literature.

It’s not just WHAT we say …… it’s HOW we say it.

It’s the same with writing –

The way a writer presents his or her ideas can affect his or her message.

When we are aware of tone and purpose we can more accurately make inferences (educated guesses) about meaning.

This helps with reading comprehension.

What is Tone?• The author’s attitude about a topic

• The emotion or mood of an author’s written voice

Objective Subjective

• Impartial • Personal

• Unbiased • Biased

• Neutral • Emotional

• Formal • Informal

• Name a song – what is the tone of the song?

• What was the tone of each of the examples of the mother speaking to a child?

• What was the tone of the example from The Catcher in the Rye?

Example words from: Henry, D. (2008). The effective reader. NY: Pearson.

Identifying Tone

Subjective Objective

• Admiring• Angry• Annoyed• Anxious• Approving• Arrogant• Argumentative• Assured• Belligerent• Biting• Bitter• Bored• Bubbly• Calm• Candid• Cold• Comic• Confident

• Accurate• Factual• Impartial• Matter-of-fact• Straightforward• Truthful

Here are examples of words that describe tone. More examples can be found in your text.

What is Purpose?• The reason the author writes about a topic

• Purpose is linked to the main idea

• Purpose is linked to intended audience

To Inform To Entertain To Persuade

• to analyze • to amuse • to argue against

• to clarify • to delight • to argue for

• to discuss • to frighten • to convince

• to establish • to criticize

• to explain • to inspire

Henry, D. (2008). The effective reader. NY: Pearson.

Can You Think of Examples of Each?

Starks-Martin, G. (2004). The effective reader (Updated edition) by D. J. Henry: Chapter 10: Purpose and tone. MN: Cloud State University.

Tone / Purpose Detective

• What is the tone and purpose of each of the following statements and images?

• What clues helped you to decide?

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

Rely on Denta-Fresh toothpaste to stop bad breath just as millions of others have.

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

The National Hurricane Center predicts a record number of hurricanes in the

upcoming months.

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

“I don’t know what the coach said to Danielle during the half,” observed the

announcer, “but she is definitely playing like a pro goalie now! Just look at her stop those balls. She has become a wall and

this game is really picking up!”

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

What’s the Tone?

What’s the Purpose?

“Please come with me to the mall. There are some things I need, and I really don’t want to go alone. Besides, who knows,

maybe we can look into getting thatsweater you have been admiring.”

Making Inferences

• A valid inference is a logical conclusion that is based on evidence.

• When we played Tone / Purpose Detective you used the content and presentation of the photos and sentences to form educated guesses about their meaning – you made inferences.

• What is an invalid inference?

Definition from: Henry, D. (2008). The effective reader. NY: Pearson.

Henry, D. (2008). The effective reader. NY: Pearson.

Step Action

Step 1 – V Verify and value the facts

Step 2 – A Assess prior knowledge

Step 3 – L Learn from the text

Step 4 – I Investigate for bias

Step 5 – D Detect contradictions

V.A.L.I.D. Inferences

Analogy Challenge

Create an analogy by completing one of

these sentences:

• Tone is like ____ because _____.• Purpose is like ______ because ____.• Audience is like ______ because _____.• Inference is like _____ because ______.• Bias is like _____ because ______.• A contradiction is like ______ because ______.• An analogy is like _____ because ______.

Unit 9 To Do Reading Seminar (5) Discussion (40) My Reading LabTest

(150)

My Reading Lab Test

Open book 32 questions Multiple choice Read and answer Have 3 hours Can take it once Comprehensive Worth 150 points

Unit Concept

1 • Active Reading

2 • Pre-Reading Strategies

3 • Context Clues• Word Parts• Glossaries / Dictionaries

4 • Main Idea• Supporting Details• Summarizing

5 - 7 • Patterns of Organization

8 • Fact and Opinion• Bias

9 • Tone• Purpose• Inference

What other questions do you have?

Thanks for coming!

References

Henry, D. (2008). The effective reader. NY: Pearson.

Salinger, J. (1962). The catcher in the rye. NY: The New American Library of World Literature.

Starks-Martin, G. (2004). The effective reader (Updated edition) by D. J. Henry: Chapter 10: Purpose and tone. MN:

Cloud State University.