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Close Reading Lessons
Teach careful analysis of text, especially informational text, with close reading strategies such
as identifying key information, summarizing, and finding evidence in sources to support answers
to questions.
Close reading requires students to think critically and methodically about the way a text
is organized and how an author's purpose and choice of words affects the reading. Close
reading skills and strategies help students better understand a text and answer questions
about it.
Being able to identify key information, summarize, and use evidence from a text strengthens
students' abilities to evaluate text and make important connections within and between texts to
support their responses to questions about the text.
How to Use Close Reading Lessons
Close Reading Lessons focus on in-the-text and beyond-the-text strategies that help students
understand that evidence or key information is sometimes explicitly found in the text and at
other times inferred from the text.
Student passages, charts, and questions in printable and projectable formats provide
flexibility in how you model, practice, and assess students' skills with various close reading strategies.
Step-by-step instructions and a sample dialog section called I Do, We Do, You Do
helps teachers gradually release responsibility for learning to students.
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Students determine how to use text evidence to support answers for different question types: literal or right-there questions, and inferential or thinking questions.
Students learn how to identify key information in a text and mark it with highlighting or underlining for easy reference later when answering questions.
Students summarize with brief margin notes to stay focused, understand what they read, and quickly refer to specific parts of the text when answering questions.
Students determine how to use text evidence to support answers for different question types: literal or right-there questions, and inferential or thinking questions.
Students learn how to identify key information in a text and mark it with highlighting or underlining for easy reference later when answering questions.
Students summarize with brief margin notes to stay focused, understand what they read, and quickly refer to specific parts of the text when answering questions.
Students determine how to use text evidence to support answers for different question types: literal or right-there questions, and inferential or thinking questions.
Students learn how to identify key information in a text and mark it with highlighting or underlining for easy reference later when answering questions.
Students summarize with brief margin notes to stay focused, understand what they read, and quickly refer to specific parts of the text when answering questions.
