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Deep Read
A comprehensive reading strategy where students read the entire passage first to understand and summarize before answering any questions.
Deep Read
Summary
The Deep Read allows students to move quickly through a passage and retain structure, tone, and key ideas. This strategy prioritizes comprehension up front, allowing students to tackle questions with minimal backtracking. It's ideal for students who are comfortable summarizing and drawing conclusions without relying on repeated close reading.
Procedure
Begin by asking students to read the entire passage, pausing at the end of each paragraph to create a summary or hashtag phrase in their own words.
Then have students go to the questions and answer as many as they can without looking back. Instruct them to use the process of elimination to narrow down choices.
Exception: For vocabulary-in-context questions, students need to use the line reference and plug each choice into the sentence to see which fits.
Emphasize to students that they shouldn’t linger too long on any single question. If they are plugging every choice into every sentence, they are wasting time. Tell them to trust their reading.
Adapted from Academic Tutoring and Test Prep. (2022). The lightning prep guide for ACT success: Skills and strategies for mastering the ACT. Academic Tutoring and Test Prep.
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Placement In Lesson
- Engage
- Evaluate/Assessment
- Explore/Learning Activity
- Extend/Additional Learning Activity
Intention/Purpose
- Analyze
- Annotating Text
- Citing
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Curricular
- Interpret
- Organize
- Reflection
- Summarize
- Vocabulary
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