Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies for: Choosing Complex Texts • Creating Text-Dependent Questions • Teaching Close Reading Skills
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Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies for: Choosing Complex Texts • Creating Text-Dependent Questions • Teaching Close Reading Skills
Close reading is a key strategy for comprehending the complex texts required by the Common Core. Sandra Athans and Denise Devine unpack this strategy, breaking it down into manageable components and sharing their classroom-tested lessons and teaching tools that guide students step-by-step through close reading grade-level texts. Athans and Devine demonstrate how to
€ select appropriate text for instruction
€ develop high-level questions to guide student thinking
€ teach students to use evidence to support their responses
€ facilitate discussion to further deepen student comprehension
€ scaffold struggling readers For use with Grades 2-6.
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