The Logic of Effective Classroom-Management and Positive Teaching

1) What is the main purpose of this article?
(State as accurately as possible what
you perceive as the author’s purpose for writing the article.)

2) What is the
key question that the author is addressing?
(What do you think the key question was
in the mind of the author when (s)he wrote the article?)

3) What is the
most important information in this article?
(Figure out and share the facts,
experiences, and data the author is using to support his / her conclusions.)

4) What are the
main inferences / conclusions made by this article?
(Identify
the key conclusions the author comes to and presents in the article.)

5) What is /
are the key concept(s) we need to understand from this article?
What does
the author mean by each of these concepts?
(Figure out the most important ideas
you would need to understand in order to follow the author’s line of
reasoning.)

6) What is /
are the main assumption(s) underlying the author’s thinking?
(What do you think the author took
for granted [that might be questioned] as (s)he wrote this article?)

7a) If we take
this line of reasoning seriously, what are the implications?
(What consequences are likely to
follow if readers take this author’s line of reasoning seriously?)

7b) If we fail to take this line of reasoning
seriously, what are the implications? (What consequences are likely to
follow if readers disagree with and / or ignore the author’s reasoning?)

8) What is / are the main point(s) of view
presented in this article? (What is the author examining, and
how is (s)he seeing it? What might his / her bias be?)

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