Thinking Beyond the Content: Critical Reading for Academic Success Book

To the Teacher

To the Student

1 Environmental Issues 1

Pre-Reading 3

Reading 1: In Time of Crisis 4

Critical Focus: Identifying the Tone of a Text 8

Critical Focus: Application 10

Getting at the Matter 10

Academic Vocabulary Focus 11

For Discussion 13

Pre-Reading 14

Reading 2: Information Overload 15

Getting at the Matter 23

Critical Focus: Detecting Bias in a Text 24

Critical Focus: Application 26

Critical Focus: Evaluating the Credibility of a Text 28

Critical Focus: Application 30

Academic Vocabulary Focus 30

For Discussion 32

Pre-Reading 33

Reading 3 North Atlantic Right Whales in Crisis 34

Critical Focus: Making Use of Citations and References 39

Critical Focus: Application 40

Getting at the Matter 42

Academic Vocabulary Focus 42

For Discussion 44

For Further Investigation 44

2 Language and Being 45

Pre-Reading 46

Reading 1: Approximating Life 47

Critical Focus: Recognizing and Examining Assumptions 54

Critical Focus: Application 55

Getting at the Matter 56

Academic Vocabulary Focus 57

For Discussion 58

Pre-Reading 59

Reading 2: Form and Meaning in Natural Languages 60

Getting at the Matter 63

Critical Focus: Comparing Points of View 63

Critical Focus: Application 64

Academic Vocabulary Focus 65

For Discussion 65

Pre-Reading 66

Reading 3 Designing the Superman 67

Critical Focus: Tracing the Steps in an Argument 72

Critical Focus: Application 73

Getting at the Matter 74

Academic Vocabulary Focus 74

For Discussion 76

For Further Investigation 76

3 Global Health Issues 77

Pre-Reading 79

Reading 1: GlobalTrends in Tobacco Use 80

Critical Focus: Reading the Graphs and Tables in a Text 87

Critical Focus: Application 90

Getting at the Matter 90

Academic Vocabulary Focus 91

For Discussion 93

Pre-Reading 94

Critical Focus: Previewing a Text 95

Critical Focus: Application 96

Critical Focus: Annotating a Text 96

Critical Focus: Application 96

Reading 2: The Human-Animal Link 97

Getting at the Matter 106

Academic Vocabulary Focus 107

For Discussion 107

Pre-Reading 108

Reading 3: On Being an Adolescent in the 21st Century 109

Critical Focus Review 123

Getting at the Matter 125

Academic Vocabulary Focus 126

For Discussion 128

For Further Investigation 129

4 Thinking about Sport 131

Critical Focus: Constructing and Testing Definitions 133

Pre-Reading 134

Reading 1: Sport: Play or Work? 135

Getting at the Matter 145

Academic Vocabulary Focus 146

For Discussion 147

Pre-Reading 148

Reading 2: The Meaning of Sport - A Cultural Approach 149

Getting at the Matter 155

Critical Focus Review 155

Academic Vocabulary Focus 156

For Discussion 157

Pre-Reading 158

Reading 3: Why Competition Excites Us 159

Getting at the Matter 166

Academic Vocabulary Focus 167

For Discussion 169

For Further Investigation 169