Reading Informational and Graphic Texts: Unit Review

Summary, evaluation (reliability, usefulness) and reflection (how you will use it).

Reading the title, labels, units and source first, because the hard part of an infographic is reading data accurately.

They show how ideas and arguments change over time and that issues can be seen from different perspectives.

Expert testimony.

Relationships between ideas, through linking words on arrows (supports, shown by).

64 ÷ 200 = 32%.

Older adults, many retired; clues: Retirement, Grandparenting, Joint-Friendly.

A conclusion based on what a text leaves out that you would expect it to include.

Design choices can have more than one reason, so the wording shows the inference is reasoned but not certain.

Sample: Like last week's article, this one quotes only officials, which shows that neither gives the people affected a voice.

Where do texts agree? Where do they differ, and why? What does one show that another leaves out? What do I now think?

An editorial gives one opinion; other texts add voices, data and gaps that test it.

Warrant: people who wear glasses are smart, an unsupported stereotype, so the argument is weak.

From a specific scene through detail and reflection to a general insight.

Ordering points from weakest to strongest, so the essay ends on its most powerful point.

The timing or occasion that makes an argument fit a particular moment.

A formal report (numbered recommendation, impersonal language).

So readers get the most important facts first, even if they stop early.

An op-ed is signed by one writer; an editorial gives the publication's view and is usually unsigned.

One or two sentences under the headline that state the article's angle, like a thesis.

Sample: Neutral: A dog rests in leaves raked from a Lakeshore yard. Comic: Day 1 of helping with the raking: going great.

By selecting what to notice and leaving out context, it can create a false impression.

Anaphora (and a tricolon).

Understatement (ironic).

The sudden change in rhythm makes readers pause on it.

The indifference and exploitation of Ireland's poor by the powerful.

The style or form of another text.

Any two: caricature, labels, symbols, juxtaposition, ironic captions, speech bubbles.

Heights above 900: 100 and 200, so it looks 2 times as tall. Real increase: 100 ÷ 1,000 = 10%.

The data are not parts of one whole (multiple answers allowed) or the numbers are wrong; a pie is the wrong chart.

No. It is a correlation; other factors (such as income or population) could explain both.

The reader's act of inferring what happens between panels, in the gutter.

Small letters, often in a dashed balloon.

It makes the character look small, vulnerable or alone.

Marc Garneau (1984); Roberta Bondar (1992).

Sources that copy each other can repeat the same error; independent sources confirm facts separately.

Criteria, evidence, judgment.

Every text has a perspective; bias is a one-sided perspective that distorts the issue.

Any two: Whose voice is heard, and whose is missing? Who benefits? What values are assumed? What words frame the issue? What is left out, and who decided?

It erases the First Nations who lived on the land before settlers and who still live in the region today.

Blessed or happy (Old English).

Present for discussion (Canadian parliamentary usage).

Rising high, with power and often emotional lift.

Sample: For the next three articles, I'll write the thesis in one sentence and check it against the conclusion before class on Friday.

Listening, speaking, writing, viewing, representing.

A strategy log, your annotations and other work, quiz or assignment results, feedback from a conference.