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Close Reading - How to Analyze Text
Taking our reading to the next level!
What is Close Reading? Why do we Closely Read?
What the Research Says...
Essentially, close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension. The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) supplies clarification useful for teaching with Common Core standards in mind:
If reading closely is the most effective way to achieve deep comprehension, then that's how we should teach students to read. But that description doesn't match much of the instruction I've witnessed in recent years.
Close Reading Is.....
Mini-Lesson: Reader's Read Closely to Analyze and Critically Think About Text...
2. Active Engagement - Closely reading an excerpt together...
3. Link - Texts on the tables to closely read...
4. Independent Practice - Use texts to practice close reading...
5. Share - 2/3 sharing the mini-lesson skill/strategy...
Let's read and analyze!
HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
I meant what I said
And I said what I meant….
An elephant’s faithful
One hundred per cent!
And it should be,
it should be, it SHOULD be
like that!
Because Horton was faithful!
He sat and he sat!
“My goodness! My gracious!”
they shouted. “MY WORD!
It’s something brand new!
IT’S AN ELEPHANT-BIRD!!”
-Dr. Seuss
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
-Langston Hughes