Card
SOAPSTone
This is a structured literacy activity that assists students in analyzing difficult text with a step-by-step approach: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject matter, and Tone.
SOAPSTone
Summary
This literacy strategy assists students in analyzing a challenging piece of text. For students who have difficulty understanding how to analyze and interpret what they read, this strategy offers a structured step-by-step approach. A variety of SOAPSTone student handouts can be found through an internet search.
Procedure
Explain to students how to use the SOAPSTone strategy to analyze text. A handout may be helpful for this activity. Guide students through each letter of the acronym as detailed below.
S: Who is the SPEAKER or author of the text?
O: What is the OCCASION of the text? What is the time and place of the document?
A: Who is the AUDIENCE that the text is addressing?
P: What is the PURPOSE for which the text was written?
S: What is the SUBJECT matter? SUMMARIZE what the text is about.
T: What is the TONE of the document? What is the author's attitude in the writing?
Morse, O. (2020). SOAPSTone: a strategy for reading and writing. AP Central. https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/resources/soapstone-strategy-reading-and-writing
Publisher
Downloads
Placement In Lesson
- Explain/Closing
- Extend/Additional Learning Activity
Intention/Purpose
- Analyze
- Critical Thinking
- Evaluate
- Identify
- Interpret
- Reason
- Summarize
- Writing
Related Resources
American Imperialism
5E Lesson
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 License.
Report copyright infringement »