Close Reading

Adapted by Diane Wolfarth

Description: When you read something slowly and carefully, word by word and line by line, you are "close reading." In close reading, your goal is to examine one part of a reading in great detail to make sure you understand its full meaning.

Using the StrategyClose reading works best with short readings.

Read the PassageExamine the passage you selected word by word. Ask yourself questions and record your thoughts in the Double-entry Journal

21st Century Skills, Rethinking How Students Learn

•New (+)•Reread (rr)

•Question (?)•Connection (___)

•Wow (!)•Empathy (^)

•Visualized (V)•Research (*)

•Infer (I)•Clues (=)

Informational text

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1. Plant: Heterotroph, self-feeder, makes own food from the sun (examples: trees, algae, pumpkins)

Word Annotations/Notes

1. Plants plant/plænt, plɑnt/ Show Spelled [plant, plahnt] Show IPA noun 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis. 2. an herb or other small vegetable growth, in contrast with a tree or a shrub. 3. a seedling or a growing slip, especially one ready for transplanting.

2. make

Quotes Paraphrase (restated in my own sentence structure

and words)

1.Plants make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.

Organisms build food molecules step by step using light energy, water and carbon dioxide.