Protocol for Close Reading
Reading like a Detective
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Abandoned Farmhouse
Vocabulary
100
What are the first steps and questions when it comes to the protocol for close reading?
What is Read the text, focusing on the “who/what/when/where/why” – the basic facts. Take some notes about these facts. Write on the text if possible.
100
* Detectives want to solve a mystery. They examine a crime scene extremely _________in order to solve their mystery.
What is closely?
100
What details suggest to me why Ellis Island was known as “The island of hope, the island of tears”? -What type of question is this?
What is Text-specific question
100
What is the author's name?
What is TED KOOSER
100
Parapharsing is defined as ___________.
What is Rewording
200
Reread, highlighting areas of ______. Attempt to clarify them. Write your clarifications down on the text.
What is confusing?
200
When you read like a detective, you read ______________ and ________________. You try to find the “deeper meaning” in the text.
What is closely and carefully?
200
What information or ideas does this text present? -What type of question is this?
What is Guiding Question
200
"a good, God-fearing man, says the _______" -Finish the quote.
What is Bible with a broken back
200
Define verbal irony
What is words express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean
300
Reread, focusing on the way the author used ______. Do any words, phrases, or figurative language stand out to you? Highlight them and make some notes about why you think the author used these words.
What is language?
300
Literary text is like a mystery. There are many layers! You may understand the simple “who, what, when, where, why” of the text, but there is often a ____________ ____________.
What is deeper meaning?
300
Pete called Ted Tuesday afternoon and invited him to come to his house after dinner to watch a movie. It had been a long, boring day, and Ted was excited to have something to do. After dinner, he hopped on his bike and pedaled over to Pete's house. The house was dark, and when he rang the bell, there was no answer. Ted turned around, hopped back on his bike, and rode home. Make an inference about why Ted rode home.
What is "Nobody was home"
300
Describe the man who lived on the farm.
What is He was a big man / a tall man / God-fearing man / not a farmer
300
What is personification?
What is a thing – an idea or an animal – is given human attributes
400
Formulate a _____________. - hint: step 4
What is a few questions about the text?
400
Yes! Just like a good detective takes a lot of ____________to examine a crime scene, you need to __________to fully examine a complex text.
What is time and reread?
400
Rose filled a large glass with some milk for her younger sister, Pamela, to drink. However, Pamela wanted to drink from a smaller glass. When Rose left the kitchen, Pamela got a smaller glass. "I'm going to pour all the milk from the big glass into the small glass," Pamela said. Make a prediction about what will happen.
What is "Pamela's glass will be too small to hold all of the milk, so she will make a mess"
400
What food did the family have in jars and what did they have in cans?
What is plum preserves and canned tomatoes?
400
What is an inference?
What is an idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence and reasoning.
500
What is the final step in the protocol for close reading?
What is "record your impressions of the text. What do you think it means"?
500
What is something you HAVE to do when doing a close reading?
What is annotate and reread?
500
There are many different ways of going to school. Some children go to school by radio. The teacher talks to the children over the radio. The children can talk back to the teacher. In some desert countries, children go to school in tents. They people move across the desert, carrying the tent school with them. In some hot countries, children go to school outside all year long. They do not sit in buildings. The sit on the grass. Make an inference about why children in hot countries go to school outside all year long.
What is "It would be too hot to have school inside a building so they sit on the cool grass"?
500
It was lonely here, says _____________.
What is the narrow country road?
500
A declarative sentence is __________.
What is "makes a statement and ends with a period. It's named appropriately because it declares or states something"?
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