Today I am presenting two sessions. One of my sessions this morning is on:
Diving Into the
Depths of Knowledge Making Sure They "Get It":
Comprehension Skills
and Common Core
Please click HERE to access today's slides
Handouts for today's
presentation:
I have compiled a few new resources that will help you plan your
close reading sessions.
10 New Close
Reading Sample Lessons
From AchievetheCore.org - Demonstrating a rigorous approach to close reading with
text-dependent questions, their 21
lesson exemplars, written by
teachers, each contain full materials for up to five lessons, including
printable texts, student discussion activities and writing-based assessments.
To simplify your search, they've separated them into fiction and nonfiction and
organized them by grade.
Art of Close
Reading Part 1
Reading
for purpose, reading within disciplines, etc.
Art of Close
Reading Part 2
Avoiding
impressionistic reading and writing, reading reflectively, thinking about
reading while reading, engaging a text, etc.
Art of Close
Reading Part 3
Includes
how to read a textbook, newspaper, editorial, structural reading, how to read a
sentence and a paragraph, etc.
Close reading
of a literary passage
Close Reading
of Dr. Suess' Oh the Places You'll Go (Video)
Close Reading
of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Chapter (Video)
8th
grade ELA
Close Reading
of MLKs “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Video)
Middle
School ELA Curriculum
Grant Wiggins
on Close Reading
What is close reading? As
Grant Wiggins said in his previous blog post,
whatever it is, it differs from a personal response to the text. Now read a bit
more closely on close reading to determine what it is.
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