Overview of "Reading Like a Detective"

Hey, guys, how you doing out there in remote learning

New. Um, so we are going to be spending some

time on learning practice, seeing reading, like a detective.

And, um, it's just sort of a phrase that I

created, because when you think of a detective, um, and

a detective endures a crime scene.

So detective needs to figure things out.

The detective just can't go in there and say, Oh,

I already know what happened.

Detective. The detective can't go in and just basically guess

or predict the detective must enter that crime scene and

observe and gather evidence.

And so reading is a lot like that.

Whether you're reading a book on whether you're watching a

video, whether you're looking at a photograph or let's say,

a timeline, a chart or graph, you have to look

at that, observe it and gather evidence.

So that's what we're gonna work on.

We're going to kind of model our way of reading

as if we were a detective figuring out a mystery.

Okay, so basically, that's what I was just describing is

reading like a detective, um, and be thinking about when

you head into a book when you head into a

photograph. A graph that is what you need to unpack.

That's what you need to figure out.

And as we are interacting with that content, were observing,

were unpacking it and unfolding its meaning.

Okay, so let's move on.

And the big purpose here is I want you to

be really mindful.

I want you to really be thinking about that.

Whatever. We are reading a text in front of us

a photograph that the purposes we need to understand it

and granted, If we read a story, we may not

understand that the first time I have read several books,

some of my favorite books.

I read them over every summer, and I'm always kind

of finding out unpacking, unfolding something new.

It's really cool.

And I bet you guys maybe have your favorite book

or have a favorite movie.

You like to re read or re watch, and you

do it because you probably finding out something a little

bit knew each time.

So, um, when we are interacting with a text to

photograph ah video, we want to have that conversation, and

I know that sounds a little crazy.

But as part of that observing and gathering evidence we

need to be thinking about.

OK, what do I see?

What do I hear having that conversation with that text?

So we will have some steps here and with each

of these steps, I want you to have an open

mind. I want you to just again think, act like

a detective.

So Step one is you're going to head into the

text, and you may be this is might be the

first time you read it.

Or it may be a close read where you are

re reading the text.

And so, step one, um is making sure that you

get the gist of it that you kind of get

an overall idea.

Yes. You may not know every single layer of meaning

and that's okay.

That's why we oftentimes will re read even more closely.

Um, and even during that first re, you may want

to take a few notes and just in your head

or on a piece of paper, summarize and a summary

is just the evidence you're not adding in the your

background knowledge.

You're not adding in what you think.

You're just jotting down the evidence.

So the next step.

Step two is you're going to begin the annotation process,

and some of you I know have annotated some of

you have no clue what I'm talking about.

That's okay.

We will practice it.

And when you are annotating, you're going to again like

a detective.

Gather that evidence, Maybe jot that evidence.

What? You see what you hear in a notebook?

That's the evidence.

Sometimes it will be targeted evidence.

So I'm gonna say, Hey, guys, you need to go

in this tax and you need to answer this question.

Find the evidence to answer this question.

That's target.

It's really, um, laser focused with With that, um, sometimes

you're just gonna go into a text and you're going

to gather evidence because you're interested in it.

That's wonderful, too.

Step three is So you've annotated, are you?

I'm sorry you started the empty ation process.

You have gathered some evidence, so the evidence is there.

So it's what you saw, what you heard.

It's a right there piece of evidence.

Now you get to kick in that related background knowledge.

So whatever you know about that evidence and it's relevant,

it's connected.

You get to kick in So an annotation begins with

evidence, just like a detective.

We walk into a crime scene, we've got to start

with the evidence.

Then we kick in our related background knowledge and we

create this cool thing called inference.

And his inference is this big time interaction with the

text evidence, our own thinking put it together and inference,

then the final step is not always gonna happen.

But it's kind of the fun part is when you

are kicking in, sort of your questions wondering ZX so

often a time of detectives going to gather evidence and

add in what he or she knows his or her

expertise about a particular crime or an event.

And then they're gonna ask some questions.

Well, what happened before or what happened after?

And so there may not be any evidence directly to

support that.

OK, but based on the inference, we're gonna have some

curiosities, we're gonna have some more questions.

Like what if I'm curious about?

I want to know more about this.

All right, so those are basically the four steps in

in in a nutshell again, we're gonna practice those, and

then here's just a quick timeline introduction That's kind of

what we're doing now.

We're gonna work on gathering evidence That's gonna be our

next step.

We're gonna take a look at some illustrations.

Then we're going to understand how our background knowledge is

related to evidence and how we build our background knowledge

as well.

Because sometimes background knowledge, depending on the evidence, we gather

the background knowledge that is needed.

It will change once we find out more with the

evidence we're going like, Oh, I don't need that background

knowledge. I need this background knowledge.

So we're gonna practice that Ah course in all of

this will be practicing, inferring, creating our our inferences.

And then that's all about annotating creating annotations and then,

as far as an assessment

Overview of "Reading Like a Detective"

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