Close and Critical Reading

1. Close and Critical Reading • What is it? • How does it relate to Common Core? • Rubric?

2. Close and Critical Reading Defined • Close and critical reading is the ability to comprehend information, analyze how it is presented, determine the purpose and perspective of the author, establish what it means, and apply it to your life. - Dr. Elaine Weber 

3. Comprehension • Thinking critically • Thinking independently • Thinking to overcome roadblocks

4. AnalyzeQuestions 1, 2, and 3 • Break down concept or idea • Show relationships among parts • Make an inference

5. Determine Purpose and PerspectiveQuestion 2 • Read through literal to abstract • Pull out theme • Identify points of view

6. Establish What it MeansQuestion 4 • Make connections • Personal • Another text, visual, song, etc • World or Culture

7. What are the 4 questions? • What does the text say? • Summary • How does it say it? • Text Structure • What does it mean? • Interpretation • What does it mean to me? • Connection

8. How does this relate to common core? • Key Ideas and Detail • Craft and Structure • Integration of Knowledge and Ideas • Range of Reading and Text Complextiy • evidence based, collaborative, independent thinking

9. Common Core • Key Ideas and Details (Question 1 and 2) • Craft and Structure (Question 2) • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments. • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.5 Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot. 9

10. Common Core • Integration of Knowledge and Text (Questions 1-4) • Range of Reading and Text Complexity (Silent Reading, Text Sets) • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.7 Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. • (RL.6.8 not applicable to literature) • CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.9 Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics. 10 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

11. Change for learners and instructors! • Video

12. Scaffolding • Start Simple • Use a picture, video clip, commercial, song, etc. • High Interest • Make it relevant for students to take ownership • Student should be used to questions and how to respond before assessment

13. Migrant Mother Photograph • Look at the picture • Answer the four questions with your group in response to the picture • Collaborate on answers • Gallery Walk one minute at each table

14. Rubric

15. District Common Assessment • Literature and Informational Text • Both will be a cold read • Four questions • Assess answers against rubric

16. Total ___/16 Close and Critical Reading Rubric Condition codes for unratable responses = 0 (Does Not Meet Expectations) (A) Off Topic (B) Written in a Language other than English or Illegible (C) Blank or Refusal to Respond

17. Condition codes for unratable responses = 0 (Does Not Meet Expectations) (A) Off Topic (B) Written in a Language other than English or Illegible (C) Blank or Refusal to Respond

18. Email me at • morrisc@dearbornschools.org 18