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Students may bring misconceptions to the task of analysis. As you practice analysis for your subject area, be sure to clarify the need for the following with your students:

Before you teach students to analyze a text, issue, situation, or work, try these four things:

 Model: Save student work so that you can show a class a successful example of a piece broken down into its component parts (see example, page 9). Have students practice the task of analysis on the piece in pairs or groups.

 Define Expectations: What does a successful analysis in your discipline look like? If it’s presented in an essay, do you expect to see specific types of evidence, a particular type of thesis statement, or a particular conclusion?

 Build Content Knowledge: Give students the academic language and understanding they need to look for evidence effectively. Do they need to understand terms such as diction or tone? Do they need to know how to read a political cartoon or a data chart? Prepare students for success by giving them the tools to analyze in your content area.

 Practice Mental Moves: Assign short texts to small groups or pairs and have students practice making the mental moves and answering the questions described in the Mental Moves feature in the sidebar. As you introduce skills such as analyzing, post the moves on the wall and keep circling back to them so that students internalize them and transfer them to new learning situations.