Reading Closely, Reading Suspiciously: Reading Unit 1, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Reading Closely, Reading Suspiciously is Unit 1 of English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Reading course, complete in one printable PDF: 8 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 72 pages.

• The distinction between explicit statement and non-explicit content in a short text
• The difference between inference and assumption as reader moves
• The relationship between specific diction choices and the tone they create
• The four-level textual evidence hierarchy and its application to competing evidence for one claim
• Claim-evidence-explanation paragraph structure combined with justified evidence selection using the hierarchy
• The divergence between intuitive/obvious readings and best-evidenced readings, tested via the evidence hierarchy
• Transfer of the evidence hierarchy to an untaught genre/context
• The four ordered levels of the textual evidence hierarchy

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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