Close Reading (Pre Assessment)

What is Close Reading?

• Close reading is thoughtful, critical analysis of a text.

• Close reading helps the reader focus on retelling a story.

• Close reading focuses on main ideas and supporting details.

• Close reading helps one to see small print.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Ideally, who should read the text during the first reading of a close read?

• The teacher
• The student independently
• Small group

• Partner reading

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the recommended focus on a first reading?

• Craft and structure
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• Key Ideas and Details

• Annotating

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the recommended focus for a second reading?

• Key Ideas and Details

• Craft and Structure

• Integration of

  Knowledge and Ideas

• Only vocabulary

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the recommended focus of the third reading?

• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

• Basic comprehension
• Key Ideas and Details

• Craft and Structure

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What type of questions are central in close reading?

• Open-ended questions

• True or False questions

• Rhetorical questions
• Text dependent questions

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Close reading was designed to address what type of texts?

• Grade level ones
• Simple texts
• Complex texts
• Long texts

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Detail

• when two characters are talking to one another

• a particular fact or piece of information provided in a story

• the absence of words

• a summary of a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When do you use close reading? (check all that apply)

• When reading about new subjects

• When reading a nonfiction article or text

• When you have to respond to a prompt using text evidence

• When reading short stories or poetry

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What makes text complex?

• Vocabulary

• Syntax

• Text Structures

• Text Features

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5