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An instructional routine in which students critically examine a text, especially through repeated readings.
What is close reading?
During reading when students underline, circle and write margin notes. In some comes, they write on bookmarks of self-sticking notes.
What is annotation?
Preteaching skills, providing background knowledge
What is frontloading?
Questions that draw on the overall view of the piece, especially the main ideas or arguments.
What are general understanding questions?
the who/what/when/where/why/how questions that are essential to understanding the meaning of the passage.
What are key detail questions?
What is the primary objective of close reading?
what are questions that bridge explicit with implicit meanings, especially in focusing on words and phrases, as well as the way the author has organized the information. Text structure questions may include text features and discourse structures (problem/solution, cause/effect, compare/contrast, etc.).
What are vocabulary and text structure questions?
The most important thing teachers need to know about close reading and developing text dependent questions
What is the text?
The purpose of the first read.- What do we want students to know?
What are key ideas and details?
An instruction model in which the teacher supports students and gradually releases responsibility to the student.
What is scaffolding?
To build the necessary habits of readers when they engage with a complex piece of text. These include building stamina and persistence when confronted by a reading that isn't easily consumed.
What is the second purpose of close reading?
The purpose of the second read. What do we want students to know?
What is craft and structure?
short passages, complex texts, text-independent questions, limited frontloading and annotation
What are key features of close reading?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, decodable texts, novels that offer simple story lines and vocabulary that are easily understandable
What are inappropriate texts for close reading?
The purpose of the third read- What do we want students to know?
What is integration of knowledge and ideas?
Students and teachers work together to construct meaning of the text by consistent application of predicting, question generating, clarifying and summarizing
What is reciprocal teaching?
This is the heart and soul of reading. This is the reason we read.
What is comprehension?
Defined as a kind of storage cabinet in our brains with file folders containing information about concepts, events, emotions, and roles
What is schema?
questioning, interviews, retelling, reading inventories
What are assessments of comprehension?
whose does the reading (close reading)?
What are the students?