Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom / The Classroom Strategies Series (ePub)

Close-reading strategies help students develop the literacy and critical-thinking skills essential for the rest of their lives. Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom offers high school and middle school educators extensive guidance on how to introduce close-reading strategies to students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills and critical thinking. Learn how to select close-reading examples and passages, elicit deeper question formation, facilitate positive classroom discussion, and assess your students' reading comprehension skills and literacy progress.

Use research-based close-reading instruction strategies to increase student literacy and critical-thinking skills:

• Understand the importance of close reading, prereading, and post-reading activities.



• Learn how to choose appropriate literary or informational texts for close reading.



• Pass on tools necessary for literary analysis and annotating text.



• Develop thought-provoking questions and discussion that deepen text analysis and reading comprehension skills.



• Assess students' creative- and critical-thinking skills.

Contents:


Introduction


Chapter 1: Research and Theory


Chapter 2: Prereading


Chapter 3: Reading Twice and Annotating


Chapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading Analytically


Chapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing Activities


Chapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close Reading


Epilogue


Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions


Appendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading