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This Lesson is part of the first lesson I do when I am introducing a new Close Reading text.

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Close Reading of Informational Science Textusing Technology

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Close Reading of Informational Science Textusing Technology

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Close Reading of Informational Science Text

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Common Core Demonstration Teacher Randy Clyde has students using close reading to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

For Lesson Plans and other resources used in this video, please visit 
https://sbcusd.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_59869/File/video_resources/Close_Reading_of_Informational.zip

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Take a look at what close reading looks like in our classroom.

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Kelly Keys teaches us her Close Reading strategy for middle school English language arts students.

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Grappling with Complex Informational Text

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Grappling with Complex Informational Text

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Grappling with Complex Informational Text

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Students in Andrew Hossack's fifth-grade class at Tapestry Charter School in Buffalo, NY, use close reading strategies to determine the main idea and important details from a newspaper article about the Seneca people.

In this video, students and teachers are engaged with EL Education's grades 3-8 ELA curriculum. This video accompanies the book Transformational Literacy: Making the Common Core Shift with Work That Matters.

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Elem. Close Reading w/Visuals

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1st grade - RW Close Reading with Visual Text

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Elem. Close Reading Lesson

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Students from Kerry Meehan's third-grade class at World of Inquiry School #58 in Rochester, NY, experience a close reading lesson from an Expeditionary Learning ELA curriculum module (G3:M2A:U1:L2). Meehan guides students through the close reading process, checks for understanding, and leverages the power of student talk and collaboration to help them make meaning of a complex text. This is a longer annotated version of the shorter video (Close Reading: An Instructional Strategy for Conquering Complex Text). It highlights each instructional move and its impact on student learning. This video is useful to those new to close reading as an instructional practice and for those interested in the rationale behind the lesson design.

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Thought starters

1. In what ways do 'thinking notes' require students to track their response to a text and engage in more thoughtful reading?

2. What other reactions might you have students track when reading?

3. How do 'thinking notes' help students prepare for and structure discussions?

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445 128th Ave Se
Bellevue WA 98005

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Thinking Notes: A Strategy to Encourage Close Reading

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By highlighting or underlining elements of the text and noting their responses to these elements, students use symbols to identify points to discuss further, confusing or unclear passages, strong writing elements, and ideas to which they had strong reactions.