4. What is close reading?
Close reading
is the
investigation
of a piece of
text.
5. Close Reading Elements
• Short passages or books
• Complex texts
• Annotation (“reading with a pencil”)
• Repeated readings
• Limited frontloading
• Text-dependent questions
• Discussing text with others
• Think-pair-share or Turn and talk frequently
• Small groups and whole class
• Written responses
6. Background Knowledge and
Close Reading
Brown & Kappes, 2012
• “It is important to distinguish between the
background knowledge that is required to
understand the text and the knowledge sought
to be gained from reading the text.”
• “Teachers should ensure their students have
enough context and background knowledge to
access the text, either through prior instruction
and/or pre-reading activities.”
• “Previewing the content of the text undermines
the value of a Close Reading exercise.”
7. What is close reading
• http://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/2012/06/what-is-closereading.html
• http://grantwiggins.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/what-exactly-isclose-reading-of-the-text/
• http://tomakeaprairie.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/a-close-look-atclose-reading/
• http://learningisgrowing.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/close-readingam-i-getting-close/
• http://christopherlehman.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/blog-a-thonpost-1-what-closereading-isnt-or-at-least-shouldnt-be/
• What does it look like? video
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhGI5zdjpvc
9. Planning for Close Reading
1. Choosing a text
2. Follow a “rereading” plan
3. Creating text dependent
questions
4. Teaching students to have
collaborative discussions
10.
11. Text Features to consider
• Ideas
• Presupposed prior
knowledge
• Vocabulary
• Sentence/syntax
• Genre familiarity
• Text organization
• Sophistication of
literary devices
• Sophistication of
data-presentation
devices
• Fluency challenge
• Reading
comprehension
strategies
12. General pattern to Follow
1st Read: What the text says
Key Ideas and Details
2nd Read: How the text works
Craft and Structure
3rd Read: What the text means to the reader and
how it connects to other experiences
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
13. Use one of “These” after a text
Dependent question
• Use textual evidence to support your ideas.
• Use words and phrases from the text to prove your
answer.
• Include specific evidence from the text to support your
ideas or opinions.
• Use specific details from the text or illustrations to
support your ideas.
• What in the text helped you to know?
• What words and phrases did the author use that led you
to your answer?
24. Common Core or Guided
Reading
• http://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/2012/07/common-coreor-guided-reading.html
“…we've been good for a long time
at matching text to our readers,
now we've got to learn how to
match our readers to the text."
Tessa Trimm
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28. Close Reading Timeline
K-1 no formal close reading
Gr. 2
2014-15 on spring maps
3-5
2013-14- getting familiar and trying it out
2014-15- more pervasive and consistent
2015-16- evaluate frequency and place on LFS map
