Close Reading Strategies
Essentially, close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) supplies clarification useful for teaching with Common Core standards in mind:
Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. (PARCC, 2011, p. 7)
At Scholastic they describe Close Reading as: Close reading is purposefully reading a text several times in order to analyze and gain a deep understanding of the text.
The kid-friendly (and right on target!) way my 3rd graders describe close reading is: Reading something enough times so you can understand it, explain it to someone else, and ask and answer questions about it using evidence from the text.
If reading closely is the most effective way to achieve deep comprehension, then that's how we should teach students to read. But that description doesn't match much of the instruction I've witnessed in recent years. Nancy Boyles has a great article on the subject of Close Reading. Here is an article on Text Dependent Strategies. Achieve the Core has lessons on Close Reading that are well organized. A Pinterest site has a great list of resources. Here is a powerpoint that clearly describe Close Reading in the elementary classroom. Denver teachers use this resource to review model lessons and get basic information on the use of Close Reading in their classrooms. New York City educators have a video resource site filled with great implementation strategies. Common Core websites are also providing more videos and resource tools for Close Reading.
Close Reading in Elementary Schools is a good introductory article to this teaching strategy. Here is another article that the Common Core wrote on Close Reading.
Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. (PARCC, 2011, p. 7)
At Scholastic they describe Close Reading as: Close reading is purposefully reading a text several times in order to analyze and gain a deep understanding of the text.
The kid-friendly (and right on target!) way my 3rd graders describe close reading is: Reading something enough times so you can understand it, explain it to someone else, and ask and answer questions about it using evidence from the text.
If reading closely is the most effective way to achieve deep comprehension, then that's how we should teach students to read. But that description doesn't match much of the instruction I've witnessed in recent years. Nancy Boyles has a great article on the subject of Close Reading. Here is an article on Text Dependent Strategies. Achieve the Core has lessons on Close Reading that are well organized. A Pinterest site has a great list of resources. Here is a powerpoint that clearly describe Close Reading in the elementary classroom. Denver teachers use this resource to review model lessons and get basic information on the use of Close Reading in their classrooms. New York City educators have a video resource site filled with great implementation strategies. Common Core websites are also providing more videos and resource tools for Close Reading.
Close Reading in Elementary Schools is a good introductory article to this teaching strategy. Here is another article that the Common Core wrote on Close Reading.
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