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Discovery Middle School

Discovery Middle School. Faculty Meeting November 13, 2013. What is Close Readi ng?. “an intensive analysis of a text in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means .” Tim Shanahan. How To Do a Close Reading.

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  1. Discovery Middle School Faculty Meeting November 13, 2013

  2. What is Close Reading? “an intensive analysis of a text in order to come to terms with what it says, how it says it, and what it means.” Tim Shanahan

  3. How To Do a Close Reading Read with a pencil in hand; annotate the text. Mark the big ideas and skills. Reread to look for patterns in the things you’ve noticed about the text – repetitions, contradictions, similarities. Find the commonalities. Ask and/or answer questions about the patterns you’ve noticed – how and why are these patterns important to the overall text?

  4. What is a Close Read? • We are going to do a close read of “Love” by William Maxwell. • On the first read, read with pencil in hand. • Focus: Main ideas and supporting details • Now read again. • Focus: Foreshadowing • What clues did Maxwell give us that the teacher would die?

  5. A Different Kind of Reading • A close reading of text is a rereadingof a small slice of a story (or something that is short to begin with, like a poem or an essay)—perhaps rereading it many times. • Then, through careful inspection of words, sentences, paragraphs, and the way they work as parts and together as a whole, the teacher leads the students to discern the author’s meaning.  • Students are guidedto provide “textual evidence”that the author’s meaning is what it is. They can’t guess, based only their prior knowledge and a cursory look at the words on the page, what the author intends.  This means, practically, that a Cliff Note’s acquaintanceship with the text won’t cut it. http://gazette.teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/sarah-powley/the-text-the-students-and-me-close-reading

  6. Where does Close Reading appear in the College and Career Ready Standards? Anchor Standards for Reading R.1: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

  7. I have also attached a couple of resources regarding Close Reading if you are interested. A final thought…. Two Stars and a Wish

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