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Have you grabbed your FREE Close Reading Unit (it’s super fun, I promise) yet? Today, I am going to share the 6 steps to a successful close read in the classroom to get you started with confidence! By implementing a purposeful set of close reading steps and reading comprehension strategies, your students will enjoy a greater level of success when reading independently and when approaching challenging reading passages. Some of you may already be using some close reading strategies in your own classroom, while others haven’t yet begun. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.Chances are, you’ve heard of Close Reading. 5, May 2004.Įxample #2 of Close Reading of James Joyce's short story "Eveline"įrom Burgey, Patricia, “How to Annotate a Poem,” University of West Georgia. Make connections to similar or different things both inside the text and outsideĮxamples of Annotating Texts While Close, Interactive, Critical Readingįrom Porter-O’Doneell, Carol, “Beyond the Highlighter: Teaching Annotation Skills to Improve Reading Comprehension,” English Journal, Vol. Skip hard parts and return to them later-note them in the marginĬonsider the author’s purpose and intended audience Strategies Readers Employ When Reading Gets HardĬonsider how this time frame influences the author Doesn’t pursue questions or lack of understanding.Re-Reading for meaning impeded without good annotations.Summarizes, outlines, reflects upon the text.Pursues questions of meaning to resolve them.Reviews annotations with purpose for reading in mind.Re-reads-revisits the text to make deeper meaning.Are unable to make connections, both inside and outside the text.Do not monitor comprehension while reading.Overattend to individual words/ are often unable to make meaning.Make connections, both inside and outside the text.Look up in a dictionary unfamiliar words.Pay attention to meaning/are able to identify key information.Don’t have an idea about how major ideas may fit together.Don’t know why they are reading the text.Read without thinking of what they already know.Have a sense of how major ideas may fit together.Identify a purpose for reading the text.Think about what they already know/search their prior knowledge.What Good and Struggling Readers Do-taken and adapted from Kelly Gallagher’s Readicide pgs. Find a good reading chair where you can focus.Graphic taken from Literature: A World of Writing by D. The strategies below of pre-reading, reading, and processing will help you read more closely, critically, and interactively. Just as writing is a process, and you cannot expect a perfect draft the first time you write, so too is reading a process that takes time and effort-much of it through re-reading. Whereas other reading you do may be for pleasure or general information, in college you must read for understanding and recall. In college, you will need to be this kind of active reader who "converses" with what you are reading. They react to and interact with what they are watching. But another sort (typically seen during football season) jump from their seat and yell curses or pump high fives at the screen.
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Many readers approach reading like a certain breed of TV watcher-they melt into the couch, passive observers that blend silently into the upholstery. Interactive, Close, Critical Reading Strategies The Write Place: Guides for Writing and Grammar.