Assessment
Critical Reading
As students read a piece of text, they be
able to answer the following questions:
What
does the text say? (Briefly summarize the short story at a
literal level.)
How does it say it? In other words, how does the author
develop the text to convey his/her purpose? (What are the
genre, format, organization, features, etc.?)
What does the text mean? (What message/theme/concept is the
author trying to get across?)
So what? (What does the message/theme/concept mean in your
life and/or to the lives of others?)
Close and Critical Reading Bookmarks aligned
to the Common Core
Assessment Activities - General:
Handout: Critical Reading
Questions
Handout: Rubric for Critical
Reading
Additional Questions for Critical
Reading
Assessment Activity: Cobwebs to Crosshairs:
Close and Critical Reading
Assessment
Text - Cobwebs to
Crosshairs
Student Critical Reading
Questions
Questions with
Responses
Assessment Activity: "Made to Break: Technology and
Obsolescence in America"
Text - "Made to Break: Technology and
Obsolescence in America"
Student Critical Reading
Questions
Questions with
Responses
Critical Reading
Questions for Poems and Fiction
Critical Reading: A
Guide