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Welcome to KU120
Unit 9 Seminar
Intro to Reading Skills and Strategies
Instructor – Carrie Jantz
You are in the right place :).
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.