Critical
Reading Strategies
Please check out
Dan Kurland's Website
Profundity
- Steps to a deeper understanding of
text.
The following handouts and materials will provide
strategies to improve critical reading.
Handout: Profundity for Expository
Text
Profundity Lesson Plan
Profundity Question Stems for Narrative
Text
Narrative Profundity
Matrix
Narrative Profundity
Scale
Profundity in the
Margins
Text for practicing Profundity
Short Story "Victory"
Socratic
Circles -
Lesley Lambright (1995) defines a Socratic Seminar as an
"exploratory intellectual conversation centered on a text"
(p. 30).
For a full definition of Socratic Circles, read the article
below:
Chapter 1 - The Benefits of Socratic
Circles
If you would like to see students demonstrating a Socratic
Circle, click on the link below. These Roseville High
School Students modeled Socratic Circles with the Macomb
ISD Secondary Literacy Network.
Socratic Circles - Roseville
HS
Technology
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