Take a “Close” LookUsing Close Reading Strategies with

CCSSA.L. Corbett Middle School

Bridget Black, 6th Grade ELAKanelia Cannon, 8th Grade ELA

Tara Davis, Keyboarding/Computer ApplicationsSandra Watts, 7th/8th Grade SS

South Carolina Middle School Association 37th Conference

March 1, 2014

“Close Reading is a central focus of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). It requires students to get truly involved with the text they are reading. The purpose is to teach them to notice features and language used by the author. Students will be required to think thoroughly and methodically about the details in a text. “ Teacher-modeled Gradual release of responsibility

-Learning A-Z

What is Close Reading?

“Close reading teaches students to seek out micro-levels of understanding……When students are taught to read a text closely they become more skilled at locating evidence within a sentence or a paragraph or a page of a text or story. Then orally or in writing, they can justify answers to text-dependent questions based on evidence. These are basic close reading skills as outlined by the Common Core English language arts Standards that every student must know to succeed in college and career.”

-Learning A-Z

What is Close Reading?

“Close reading is an intensive analysis of a text in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means” First read- Figure out what a text says; comprehension Second read-Figure out how a text is worked;

organization, literary devices, quality of evidence, word choice Targeted re-reading or total re-reading

Third read-go even deeper; what does the text mean; what is the author’s point; What does it have to say to me about my life or my world? How do I evaluate the quality of this work—aesthetically, substantively? How does this text connect to other texts I know?

-Timothy Shanahan

What is Close Reading?

Teacher-modeled Gradual release of responsibility Text-dependent Read and reread It’s about more than comprehension!!!!

Comprehension-Analysis-Synthesis

Big Ideas

To model literacy strategies before, during, and after reading in order to improve comprehension, analysis, and synthesis

To demonstrate for students how literacy strategies can be applied in science, social studies, math, and elective classes

Why These 5 Strategies?

Close Reading Foldable

1. Look at the pictures.2. Look at the captions and read them.

3. Look at the maps, charts, and graphs.4. Look at the titles and headings?

5. Read the first and last lines of each ¶for more information.

6. Ask questions. Give yourself a reason to read.

Read Around the Text

What are six steps you take to identify a good book?

Introduction to Read Around the Text

Student Responses

Students have the opportunity to preview text to be read.

Students can improve their comprehension by setting a purpose for their reading and activate prior knowledge.

The Purpose of Read Around the Text

Activity

Student Results

K.I.M. Vocabulary

Three-tiered vocabularyIsabel Beck and Margaret McKeown

Annotating the Text

THINK ALOUD by writing on the text.

Scaffolds reading comprehension Students think about their thinking

(metacognition) Initially, the teacher is the coordinator

Teacher-modeledGradual release of responsibility

Reciprocal Teaching

Students have two voices-the voice that reads the words and the conversation voice that talks back to the text. Modeled Track your thinking on post-it notes

Inner Conversations

Tonya Mohr

“Our inner

conversation is us

thinking to ourselves

while we are reading.

This helps readers

monitor their

comprehension,

understand what

they are reading,

stay engaged in their

reading, and take

their thinking

deeper.” –Tonya

Mohr

Questions?

Timothy Shanahan “What Is Close Reading?” Timothy Shanahan “Planning for Close Reading” Close Reading of Literary Texts Close Reading of a Literary Passage Tonya Mohr-Following our 'Inner Conversation‘ Follow Your Inner Conversation The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph Middle Links-Middle School High Five Classroom Strategies Directions for Assembling a Layered Booklet High Five Layered Booklet for Teachers Dinah Zike

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