Jan20 Summary (CRCB C13, Reading beyond the words)

Critical reading means to asking and answering questions about your reading material at all level thinking.
Critical reading comprehension involves challenging yourself to understand what you read in your textbooks at different levels of complexity. When reading you must a as certain level of knowledge in what you are reading and you must always be trying to interpret what the author is saying because a lot of time it may not be in front of you in black and white.
Bloom’s taxonomy lists six levels of critical thinking –knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation- that you can use to deepen your understanding of textbook material. By creating and answering questions at each of these levels, you will be better able to predict the kind of questions your instructor will ask on an exam and better prepared to answer them. Everything the author is saying to you must be taken in to account in what he may be trying to accomplish by getting his work across.

As a reader you should look through all of this to try to learn what is trying to be put across. Once you have read what has been presented evaluates and tries to summarize what you got out of this reading.