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Students should be able to read and comprehend text at deep and thoughtful levels.

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Students should be able to read and comprehend text at deep and thoughtful levels.

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How do you use close rading strategy to examine text?

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How do you use close rading strategy to examine text?

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a.  use of small pieces of text
b.  read multiple times
c. over multiple lesson

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The Aspen institutes note  that close reading is an instructional strategy that provides modeling and guided practie of the skill and strategies needed to independently read complex text and apply new acquired knowledge in text based demonstrations of deep understanding.

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The Aspen institutes note  that close reading is an instructional strategy that provides modeling and guided practie of the skill and strategies needed to independently read complex text and apply new acquired knowledge in text based demonstrations of deep understanding.

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But,  what does this really mean?  This anchor standard 1 focus on three college readiness standards listed below.

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But,  what does this really mean?  This anchor standard 1 focus on three college readiness standards listed below.

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1.  The ability to read closely to determine what the text says explicitly.
2.  The ability to support lofical inferencese from the text when writing or speaking                          3.  the ability to cite specific tectal evidence to support conclusions

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Janice Dole

Director, Reading & Literacy Program, Educational Psych, University of Utah

In my previous post, I shared how I use freely available video in my reading and literacy methods course to help my preservice teachers (PTs) understand close reading instruction at a level that could not be attained through reading and discussion alone.

Below is my curated collection of videos for general Common Core info, as well as videos to teach the close reading, text complexity and informational texts standards.

General Information About the Common Core

This 15-minute video gives a general overview of the CCSS and explains why the U.S. has moved to the Common Core. It summarizes how the ELA Standards are structured and is appropriate for elementary, middle and high school teachers.

This is a set of cartoon drawings that explain the different organizations and institutions involved in developing the CCSS. The CCSS were not developed by the federal government. This video shows you who did.

This eight-minute video provides an opportunity for teacher educators to hear from the two individuals who are most responsible for the CCSS -- David Coleman and Sue Pimentel. The video does not provide a lot of help in understanding the CCSS, just some background about what the original authors intended to do with the standards.

Close Reading

In this three-minute video, Dr. Fisher explains what close reading is. The video does not show an example of close reading, but Dr. Fisher does an excellent job of explaining the approach and describing what it might look like in a classroom.

This is another three-minute video explaining what teachers and students do during a close read. When the teacher models close reading, she notices that students aren't understanding, and changes her approach by helping them search the text to provide support for their ideas.

In this 15-minute video of a fourth grade teacher doing a close read with her students, the teacher does an excellent job of leading a discussion of the difficult text. Her questions draw out important information about the text itself, as well as information that will lead students to write a compare/contrast essay about the two selections they read.

This is a ten-minute video of a teacher doing a close read of a text in a whole-classroom setting. She stresses the importance of annotating a text. Students work on their own, read and reread the text, work in small groups, etc. As the teacher goes around the room, she observes that the kids really don't understand the main idea of the selection. She then scaffolds a bit with the whole group and has students go back and reread.

This 16-minute video shows a tenth grade instructor teaching close reading of a section from Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning. She has a whole group of students who periodically break into groups of four to discuss questions.

This 17-minute video is an actual small-group lesson (seven students) by a second grade teacher. The teacher is reading aloud from Bats at the Ballgame and helps students understand the story. The lesson is nicely interactive and shows the students' prior knowledge and understanding of words in the story.

This is a four-minute close reading from Dr. Seuss' Oh, The Places You'll Go, showing the kind of annotation strategies used to do a close read of the text, highlighting words, phrases and ideas worthy of further explanation/discussion.

This two-minute video shows students how to annotate -- highlighting, marking up the pages and putting notes in the margin. It's a good introductory video to give middle and high school students a heads-up on annotation skills.

Text Complexity

This 14-minute video explains text complexity well. It would be an excellent instructional video for pre- and in-service teachers as they begin to understand issues related to text complexity. It provides the what but not so much the why.

Dr. Elfrieda (Freddy) Hiebert gave this 53-minute webinar on text complexity and vocabulary. She presents theory, research and practice about vocabulary and text complexity and shares how ideas about these issues relate to English-language learners. The lengthy video should be required viewing for pre- and in-service teachers.

This 45-minute webinar presents a thorough discussion of text complexity and text difficulty. David Liben discusses a study conducted to compare the different measures of text difficulty and the results of those studies -- vocabulary and syntax are the most important components of text complexity. He ends the webinar explaining the amount of complex texts on which students at the different grades should read and spend time. This is a good overview of issues related to text complexity and a reasonable way to approach it within classrooms.

Informational Texts

This nine-minute video explains at a very basic level the difference between fiction and informational texts -- a good resource for beginning preservice teachers and upper elementary and secondary students who do not understand the difference between fiction and informational in terms of what students need to do.

In this eight-minute video, a primary grade teacher presents a lesson showing students the differences between fiction and nonfiction texts. The video is useful for preservice teachers in that this lesson shows teachers how to teach the difference.

This is a 46-minute PowerPoint webinar by Nell Duke about informational texts. Duke presents an excellent blend of theory, research and practice. Preservice and in-service teachers will learn how informational texts are embedded in the CCSS. Duke explains the potential uses and values of informational text for students, and also describes pitfalls that may occur. This webinar does not present practical applications for teachers.

Please share your favorite resources in the comments section below.

This is the second of three parts. In part one, I described how I use videos to reinforce the practice of close reading for preservice teachers. Part three will feature what I've found to be exceptional professional websites for reading teachers.

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Modeling Close Reading for Future Teachers: ELA Videos and Webinars

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Janice Dole Director, Reading & Literacy Program, Educational Psych, University of Utah In my previous post, I shared how I use freely available video in my reading and literacy methods course to help my preservice teachers (PTs) understand close reading instruction at a level that could not be attained through reading and discussion alone.

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https://www.pinterest.com/teacherchels44/common-core-close-reading/?lp=trueThese Close Reading symbol charts & bookmarks are a must have for your close reading lessons! The file includes charts (2 color and 2 blackline masters) and bookmarks (1 color and 1 blackline master). You can use these as anchor charts, as posters, in notebooks, or in your students' close reading folder. C

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President's Day Freebie! (And Close Reading Freebie too

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So here are some great resources for President's Day and of course 2 amazing freebie for you all!

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in the context of comprehensive literacy framework, close reading is an instrucitonal strategy that provides modeling and guided practice of the skills and strategies needed to independently read increasingly complex text and apply newly acquired knowledge in text- based demonstrations of deep understanding.

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How will you use close rading with the students you teach?

What book titles do you plan to use to teach this this standard?

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1.  Worded the exactly the same way in both the reading literature and reading informational text.

2.  Example students are expected to:
*in grade 6 cite textual evidence
* in grade 7 cite severyal pieces of textaula evidence
* in grades 9 and 10 cite strong and thorough tetual evidence

3.  Reading standard 1 for literacy in history/social studies focuses onthe abiliy to cite textual evidence when reading material.