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Summary of how this subskill is practiced in each resource |
Academic Connections 1,
Academic Connections 2,
Academic Connections 3,
Academic Connections 4 |
recognizing the organization and purpose of a text distinguishing between facts and opinion |
| Academic Encounters: Life in Society: |
reading critically to understand a writer’s views |
| Creating Meaning: |
distinguishing fact from opinion, identifying point of view |
| Inside Reading 1: |
recognizing fact versus opinion |
Inside Reading 2,
Inside Reading 3: |
making inferences |
| Inside Reading 3: |
recognizing comparison and contrast used to support a writer’s views |
| Inside Reading 4: |
isolating causes and effects, recognizing point of view |
| Language Leader Upper Intermediate: |
identifying the writer’s position
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| New Directions: |
recognizing writer’s purpose, audience, and tone |
| New Headway Academic Skills 2: |
identifying purpose and audience |
| New Headway Academic Skills 3: |
understanding the purpose of a paragraph, using paragraph links and discourse markers to understand a writer’s purpose |
| NorthStar Reading and Writing 4: |
making inferences about the writer’s viewpoint, identifying a writer’s opinions, identifying different perspectives within one text |
| NorthStar Reading and Writing 5: |
identifying a writer’s biases, analyzing an author’s purpose, identifying a writer’s point of view, inferring an author’s attitude and feelings |
| Select Readings Pre-Intermediate: |
expressing certainty and uncertainty, recognizing the difference between fact and opinion |
| Select Readings Upper-Intermediate: |
distinguishing fact from opinion, inferring, recognizing direct quotations used to support a writer’s views |
| Strategic Reading 1, Strategic Reading 2, Strategic Reading 3: |
recognizing tone, point of view, audience, and purpose |
| Well Read 4: |
reading critically to distinguish fact and opinion and make inferences |