Say: Say means what does the text say? What happened? Citations and evidence pulled directly from the text. Literally what does the text actually say.
Mean: What does the author mean? How do I interpret this? And looking beyond the literal text to find meanings metaphors and things like that.
Matter: Why does the text even matter? Why is this important? Why should people read this? What is the point?
Explanation:
Say, Mean and Matter are the Three questions strategy to help you answer a text. by analyzing a text by asking yourself those three questions. Basically: What does it literally say, What are the meanings and whys, and why does the text even matter.
