Close Reading of Complex TextClose Reading of Complex TextBy Lydia Bagley Ed.S

Close Reading of Complex TextClose Reading of Complex Text Reaching new heights with the CCSSReaching new heights with the CCSS

What is close reading? What is close reading?

How can I use Close Reading How can I use Close Reading strategies in my classroom? strategies in my classroom?

Lydia Bagley Ed.SLydia Bagley Ed.SCurriculum Specialist

Among the highest priorities of the Common Core State Standards is a requirement that students be able to demonstrate their independent capacity to read at the appropriate level of complexity and depth.

Many students will need careful instruction — including effective scaffolding — to enable them to read at the level of text complexity required by the Common Core State Standards.

What is Close Reading? What is Close Reading?

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Close, strategic reading is one of the most powerful and enjoyable ways to develop the ability to think critically and evaluate information—to literally become smart. Students should therefore have abundant daily opportunities to carefully read and reread texts for intellectual purposes —

and with a pen in hand. (Mike Schmoker 2006)

… Close reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining its meaning thoroughly and methodically.

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Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in ELA and Literacy Grs. 3-12 David Coleman and Susan Pimentel

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Students will….Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly

and make logical

inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

Common Core Reading Standard 1

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When do we do Close Reading ?

•Through a read-aloud •Through shared reading in small groups•Through whole-class direct instruction using a text or a visual everyone can see

Close Reading in the Primary Grades

The Primary Student Masters

“Close Reading! ”

Why?

•Photos, art, and other visual images

•Read-aloud text

Resources for Close Reading With Primary Students

1.

What do you think about in your own life when you look at this picture? (Personal lens)

2.

Where do you think this photo might have been taken? Why do you think that? (Context lens)

3.

What do you think about or wonder about when you look at this photo? (Analytical lens)

4.

What ideas do you have when you look at this photo?(Semantic lens)

5. What would you be inspired/motivated to write or tell when you look at this photo, using beautiful language? (Linguistic lens)

6.

What big story could you tell about the world by looking at this

photo? (Metaphoric lens)7.

What are you thinking about when you look at this photo? (Critical lens)

Questions for Close Reading with a Photo, Art Piece or Other Visual Image

Best Practice in Reading InstructionBest Practice in Reading Instruction““Teachers should Teachers should model readingmodel reading..

They must They must show their students how they think show their students how they think while they while they read. Using a powerful teaching strategy called read. Using a powerful teaching strategy called ““thinkthink--aloudsalouds””, , teachers can teachers can read aloud read aloud unfamiliar selections infront of their unfamiliar selections infront of their students, students, stopping frequently to stopping frequently to ““open up their headsopen up their heads”” and and vocalize their internal thought processesvocalize their internal thought processes. .

This kind of teacher modeling This kind of teacher modeling demonstratesdemonstratesfor kids the complex mental processfor kids the complex mental processinvolved in skillful readinginvolved in skillful reading.”

Zemelman, Steven, Harvey Daniels, and Arthur Hyde. "Best Practice in Reading." Best Practice Today's Standards for Teaching & Learning in America's Schools. 3rd ed. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2005. 47.

Reading Text for Multiple Purposes

Dialogic Reading Dr. Grover Whitehurst

First Read –

Enjoyment

Second Read –Vocabulary and Comprehension (Model Your Thinking)

Third Read –

Higher Order Thinking(Close Read)

Ask questions about the textAsk questions beyond the text

About the text questions:

•Who is in this story?•What did the relatives do when they saw each other?

Beyond the text questions:

•How do the relatives feel about each other? How do you know?•How do you feel when you are around your relatives?

•What did the text say?•What happened first, next, then . . . ?•Who was the character who said (did) that?•Why did that happen?•What did the text say about it?•What is going on here?•Why is it important?•How does this change what we know?•What in the text makes you think that?

Close Reading Read Aloud Text Questions

Close Reading

with Text

Thank you for attending!Thank you for attending!Lydia Bagley Lydia Bagley Ed.SEd.S

Curriculum Specialist Curriculum Specialist

With your With your support, support, they can they can reach the reach the greatest greatest heightheights!s!

ReferencesReferencesColeman, David, and Susan Pimentel. Publishers’ Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy Grades 3-12. Publication. 6/21/11. Print.

"Common Core State Standards Initiative | The Standards | English Language Arts Standards." Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home. 2 June 2010. Web. 25 Oct. 2011. <http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/english- language-arts-standards>.

Allyn, Pam Be core ready: Powerful, effective steps to implementing, and achieving the Common Core State Standards/Pam Allyn. P. cm.- 2013.

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Questions for Close Reading with a Photo, Art Piece or Other Visual Image

1. What do you think about in your own life when you look at this

picture? (Personal lens) 2. Where do you think this photo might have been taken? Why do

you think that? (Context lens) 3. What do you think about or wonder about when you look at this

photo? (Analytical lens) 4. What ideas do you have when you look at this photo?

(Semantic lens) 5. What would you be inspired/motivated to write or tell when you

look at this photo, using beautiful language? (Linguistic lens)

6. What big story could you tell about the world by looking at this photo? (Metaphoric lens)

7. What are you thinking about when you look at this photo? (Critical lens)

Questions for Close Reading with Text Close reading questions, such as the ones listed below, serve the following two purposes:

1. They assure that students are working from an accurate representation of the text.

2. They encourage students to think beyond the text and use higher-level thinking skills.

Review the sample close reading questions listed below.

1. What did the text say? 2. What happened first, next, then . . . ? 3. Who was the character who said (did) that? 4. Why did that happen? 5. What did the text say about it? 6. What is going on here? 7. Why is it important? 8. How does this change what we know? 9. What in the text makes you think that?