Determining What is Important in Text Components needed in order to determine importance: Students must delete information, substitute information and keep some information. Students must analyze the information at a deep level. Students must be aware of the structure of the text. Reading Math Writing Readers identify key ideas or themes as they Mathematicians look for patterns and Writers observe world and record what they read. relationships. believe is significant. Readers distinguish important from unimportant Mathematicians identify and use key words to Writers make decisions about the most important information in relation to keys or themes in build an understanding of the problem. ideas to include in the pieces they write. They text. They can distinguish important make decisions about the best genre and structure information at the word, sentence and text Mathematicians gather text information from to communicate their ideas. levels. graphs, charts and tables. Writers reveal their biases by emphasizing some Readers utilize text structures and text features Mathematicians decide what information is elements over others. (such as bold or italicized figures and relevant to a problem and what is irrelevant. photographs) to help them distinguish important Writers to reveal the provide only essential details from unimportant information. meaning and produce the effect desired. Readers use knowledge of important and Writers delete information irrelevant to their relevant parts of text to prioritize in long-term larger purpose. memory and synthesize text for others.
Determining What is Important in Text Components needed in order to determine importance: Students must delete information, substitute information and keep some information. Students must analyze the information at a deep level. Students must be aware of the structure of the text. Reading Math Writing Readers identify key ideas or themes as they read. Readers distinguish important from unimportant information in relation to keys or themes in text. They can distinguish important information at the word, sentence and text levels. Readers utilize text structures and text features (such as bold or italicized figures and photographs) to help them distinguish important from unimportant information. Readers use knowledge of important and relevant parts of text to prioritize in long-term memory and synthesize text for others. Mathematicians look for patterns and relationships. Mathematicians identify and use key words to build an understanding of the problem. Mathematicians gather text information from graphs, charts and tables. Mathematicians decide what information is relevant to a problem and what is irrelevant. Writers observe world and record what they believe is significant. Writers make decisions about the most important ideas to include in the pieces they write. They make decisions about the best genre and structure to communicate their ideas. Writers reveal their biases by emphasizing some elements over others. Writers provide only essential details to reveal the meaning and produce the effect desired. Writers delete information irrelevant to their larger purpose.
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