Big Times: Elephants!
Outcomes
Close Reading Transcript
Learning Intention:
I am learning to analyse the features of informative texts to comprehend their meaning so that I can understand what I read and make inferences about ideas.
Success Criteria:
- I can identify key information in a text
- I can examine how texts are organised
- I can consider why author’s make choices about how to organise information
1st Reading:
- Read the title, what do you predict the article will be about?
- What is the subject of the article?
- What are three things you learnt about elephants from reading the article?
- Who is the article intended for?
2nd Reading:
- How has the information been organised?
- What is the purpose of the subheadings?
- Can you think of subheadings that could be used in place of those in the article and that summarise the information in each section?
3rd Reading:
- Why does the author compare the size and weight of elephants to the size and weight of an average-sized eight-year-old child?
- Why has the author used rhetorical questions, such as:
How big is big?
What do these guys eat to grow so big?
And just how many types of elephants are there?
- How do the photos and the illustrations support the ideas in the article?
- Can you find any words that have been repeated multiple times in the article? Why do you think those words have been repeated?
General follow up questions for each reading:
- How do you know this?
- What evidence do you have to support that?
- Why do you think this?
- What examples can you find in the text?