2. Teacher
Text: (Focus chunk /portion for close read)
Major
Understandings
What do you want
students to know
after reading the
text?
What does the author
want them to know?
Purpose:
FIRST READ (Key Ideas & Details)
Focus: What does the text say?
Do not frontload vocabulary and prior knowledge or use pre-reading activities
Reading format:
___ Students Read Text
___ Teacher Reads Text
___ Partners Read Text
Text-Dependent Question(s)
Select appropriate number of cognitive level questions that will require students to use
evidence from the text.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Optional Materials:
__ Pencils
__ Highlighters
__ Post-it
__ Graphic Organizer
__ Chart Paper
__ Other
__Technology
Discussion Format:
__ Whole Group
__ Small Group
__ Pair-Share
Writing Format:
___Summary
__ Other _________________
3. Purpose:
Complex test
structures and
elements
___Vocabulary
SECOND READ (Craft & Structure)
Focus: How does the text work? What does the author mean?
Reading Format
___ Independent reading
___ Read Aloud
___ Paired Reading
___ Shared Reading
___ Think Aloud
Text-Dependent Question(s)
Select appropriate number of cognitive level questions that will require students to use
evidence from the text.
1.
___ Text Structure
___ Coherence
2.
3.
4.
___ Syntax
___ Text Features
5.
Optional Materials:
__ Pencils
__ Highlighters
__ Technology
__ Post-it
__ Graphic Organizer
__ Chart Paper
__ Other
Discussion Format:
__ Whole Group
__ Small Group
__ Pair-Share
Writing Format:
___ Analysis
__ Compare/Contrast
__ Other ____________
4. Purpose:
THIRD READ (Integration of Knowledge and Ideas)
Focus: What does the text mean? How does it connect to other information?
Reading Format
___ Independent reading
___ Read Aloud
___ Paired Reading
Other sources to be
integrated:
Text-Dependent Question(s)
Additional text
__ Articles
__ Primary Sources
__ Poetry
___ Shared Reading
___ Think Aloud
1.
Media
__ Video
__ Visual Art
__ Music
__ Technology
Quantitative
__ Charts
__ Data
__ Other __________
Select appropriate number of cognitive level questions that will require students to use
evidence from the text.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Optional Materials:
__ Pencils
__ Highlighters
__ Technology
__ Post-it
__ Graphic Organizer
__ Chart Paper
__ Other ____________
Discussion Format:
__ Whole Group
__ Small Group
__ Pair-Share
Writing Format:
___ Opinion/Claim/Evidence __ Critical Analysis
___ Evaluation/Synthesis
__ Other ___________
