The 4 Steps
Answers the question WHAT does the text MEAN?
What is Step 3?
Sensory language helps us experience what the author is seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and...
What is tasting?
Tells how one thing led to another.
What is Cause and Effect text structure?
Woodson's NEW home.
What/Where is Brooklyn?
The first step of the Close Read - marking the "geography" of the text for interesting features.
What is "Annotate"?
Answers the question HOW does the text WORK?
What is Step 2?
Grabs the reader's interest and makes them want to keep going.
What is the hook?
Tells us the order in which things occur.
What is Sequence text structure?
Name of Woodson's sister who has excelled at, achieved, and is gifted.
What is Odella?
The second step of the Close Read.
What is "Question"?
Answers the question "WHAT does the text SAY?"
What is Step 1?
Charlie Brown's kite-eating tree is an example of this.
What is personification?
Tells how two or more things are similar and/or different.
What is compare/contrast text structure?
Full name of the author of Brown Girl Dreaming?
What/Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
Third step of the close read - answer to the question you asked.
What is "Conclude"?
The Close Read bridges which two steps?
What are Steps 2 and 3?
Soft squish of pine. Slip and slide through grass.
What is alliteration?
Used most frequently in infomercials.
What is Problem/Solution text structure?
Number of houses on Woodson's block where a father WASN'T.
What is 2?
The question that never fails.
Why does the author?
An example of this step might be writing your own nonfiction narrative poem.
What is Step 4?
Tells you how an author feels about their topic.
Ex.: "Nice job, Juan!"
What is tone?
Uses vivid imagery and many details to help us picture the topic.
What is descriptive text structure?
Has a sunny garden in Greenville, SC.
The close read is like taking this scientific instrument to zoom in on a small piece of text.
What is a microscope?