Close Reading

February 15, 2013Colleen Miller and Karen Brady

How does close reading help me teach PA

common core standards?

What is close reading?

Why is close reading important?

How is close reading embedded in Reading Street that I’m currently using?

Essential Questions

Let’s take a look at instructional shifts with common

core. Building knowledge through content-rich

nonfiction or informational text Literacy instruction in Science and Social Studies Engage students in more complex texts Reading, writing and speaking grounded in evidence

from text, both literary and informational Writing emphasizes evidence to inform or make an

argument Regular practice with building academic vocabulary

Why Close Reading?

Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade

Grade Level Shifts

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What is close reading?

Careful, purposeful rereading Not a common core standard. Through close reading

students cite evidence and justification. Ready to answer more complex questions?

Read with a pencil. Taking notes about what they read and sharing evidence.

Focus on what author had to say. What do the authors words mean? What’s the author’s purpose? What does the structure of the text tell us?

Give students text dependent questions. Not just facts. Thinking about text structure and author’s

purpose. Students agree and disagree. Text is primary tool for

conversation.

Video highlights

What are the three practices to bring close

reading to the elementary setting?

“Closing in on Close Reading”Educational Leadership, December 2012/January 2013

Close Reading in the Elementary Grades

Everyone Read pages 36-37 and chart on page 39. In addition:

Group 1: Read “Use Short Texts” Group 2: Read “Aim for Independence” Group 3: Read “Focus on Observing and Analyzing”

Be prepared to discuss and share:

How does this practice lead to close reading?

Jigsaw

Uncover layers of meaning for deep

comprehension.

Read and reread deliberately.

Reflect on the meaning of individual words.

Not a set of thinking strategies.

Processing the thinking of others.

What is close reading according to text?

Several genres of short texts

Literary and informational

Allows readers to make more passes through the entire sequence of a text

Read to as well as independent reading

Short text can be digested in one lesson.

Use short texts

Goal is for “independently comprehending”.

Accomplished through “text dependent questions” that lead students deeply in text.

Go beyond “Ho hum” questions.

Teach students to ask questions. 4 questions on page 40

Aim for Independence

Recount details in own words. Paraphrasing

first step then analyzing.

Students ask themselves questions.

Read with the eye of a writer. Authors play with words to get reader to see things their way.

Focus on Observing and Analyzing

Is there something from this passage that I

was expecting to find?

Is there something that could have been explained more thoroughly?

What conclusions can I make from this article and what in the text led me to this conclusion?

If we would go back to the passage to reread…

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Dr. Suess Example

Where and how does the series encourage

close reading?

How can we bring close reading to our students?

Let’s check out Reading Street