This document provides guidance on how to implement close reading in the classroom. It defines close reading as carefully investigating a short text through repeated readings and annotation. Key elements of close reading include using text-dependent questions, discussions, and written responses. Teachers should ensure students have enough background knowledge to access the text but should not provide too much context before reading. The document provides examples of close reading lessons and evaluating the difference between text-dependent and non-text dependent questions. It also provides resources for creating and practicing close reading.
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A talk delivered by Liz McCarthy at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
What are the implications of discourse analysis in the teaching of certain skills? Let's find out what discourse analysis has to do with the teaching of reading. There is a lot you can do for your Ss with this information.
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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
25.
26.
27.
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