EFL Close Reading Guide
My Focus Questions and Notes for Chapter:_______________
Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Lower Order Thinking Skills
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Higher Order Thinking Skills
Level of
Thinking
Sample Focusing questions
How has this author changed what I
understand?
Why does this matter to the author? To me?
How do I “see” the world I live in differently
now?
What conclusions/theories/explanations does
the author provide?
How did the author find out? What is the
evidence? How can we evaluate this evidence?
Whose viewpoints are not presented? What
might be their perspective?
What other conclusions/theories/explanations
could be justified by the evidence?
What happened? Why did it happen? How did it
happen?
Who are the interested groups or individuals
and what are their incentives/disincentives?
How does this [economic concept] “work”? How
is this similar (or different) from what I’ve
heard or read before?
How can I connect my experiences to what this
author is telling me?
How do these economic principles explain the
world I live in?
Where might I encounter these economic
principles in action?
How is what the author is telling me different
from what I previously understood?
What does the author want me to understand
about [economic concept]? Individuals? The
world around me?
How can I use visual information (diagrams,
graphs, models) to understand the economic
concept?
What do I currently understand about what the
author is telling me?
What economic concepts do I need to remember
for future understanding?
What economic vocabulary do I need to be
comfortable using?
Response
EFL Close Reading Guide
My Focus Questions and Notes for Chapter:_______________
Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Lower Order Thinking Skills
---------
----------
----------
----------
Higher Order Thinking Skills
Level of
Thinking
Sample Focusing questions
How has this author changed what I
understand?
Why does this matter to the author? To me?
How do I “see” the world I live in differently
now?
What conclusions/theories/explanations does
the author provide?
How did the author find out? What is the
evidence? How can we evaluate this evidence?
Whose viewpoints are not presented? What
might be their perspective?
What other conclusions/theories/explanations
could be justified by the evidence?
What happened? Why did it happen? How did it
happen?
Who are the interested groups or individuals
and what are their incentives/disincentives?
How does this [economic concept] “work”? How
is this similar (or different) from what I’ve
heard or read before?
How can I connect my experiences to what this
author is telling me?
How do these economic principles explain the
world I live in?
Where might I encounter these economic
principles in action?
How is what the author is telling me different
from what I previously understood?
What does the author want me to understand
about [economic concept]? Individuals? The
world around me?
How can I use visual information (diagrams,
graphs, models) to understand the economic
concept?
What do I currently understand about what the
author is telling me?
What economic concepts do I need to remember
for future understanding?
What economic vocabulary do I need to be
comfortable using?
Response