Lesson review

1. Take care to discern the author’s tone
2. Read the text aloud in order to hear and better discern the intended inflections
3. Probe the text with questions
4. This is not always easy but is worth the effort
5. Record your questions
6. Ask, Who? What? When? Why? How? ...and anything else you can think of!
7. Don’t be afraid to ask the obvious
8. Don’t run to outside resources for answers
9. In wisdom, do avail yourself of outside resources
10. Know that some questions will be left unanswered
11. Own the value of paraphrasing
12. Not merely changing a few key words
13. But expressing what the author is saying in your own words