Part One: Chunking Finkel's Malaria: Stopping a Global Killer

Shona's Shennanigans

Malaria was a global killer before COVID. And you'll find some surprising similarities and contrasts. In this podcast, I model how we chunk texts as we read by noticing what the writer is doing with the organization of paragraphs and passages. By doing so, we understand and follow the writer's logical reasoning. Apparent in this text also are Startling Statistics, one of the strategies of Notice and Note. We notice these statistics, question them, and use them to help us follow the author's perspectives, tone, and purposes.