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How to Use the Close Reading Shift Kit

This Close Reading Shift Kit provides resources and strategies for engaging with complex texts, including articles, research, webinars, videos, and handouts. It covers critical directions, foundational skills, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, disciplinary literacy, and diverse learners.

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How to Use the Close Reading Shift Kit

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  1. How to Use the Close Reading Shift Kit Shift One: Engage with Complex Text

  2. Table of Contents • Critical Directions • PowerPoints • Articles and Research • Webinars • Videos • Websites • Handouts—these are not listed in the table of contents

  3. International Reading Association Guidelines (Critical Direction) • Use of challenging texts • Foundational Skills • Comprehension • Vocabulary • Writing • Disciplinary Literacy • Diverse Learners The attached link from RI places the information into a chart form.

  4. A Primer on Close Reading(Critical Direction) • Close Reading defined • Key questions: • What is close reading of text and what are essential attributes? • How and for what purposes should teachers employ this strategy? • What is the role of background knowledge in reading comprehension and when should teachers activate or provide background knowledge? • What should teachers/district leaders consider as they prepare to implement Close Reading into practice?

  5. The Art of Close Reading(Critical Direction) • Key Questions: • For what purpose are students reading the text? • For what purpose did the author write the text? • What systems of meaning are in the text? • What ideas can be interconnected within the text and beyond the text? • How does the structure of the text extend thinking?

  6. PowerPoints • Illinois State Board of Education • K-5 • 6-12 • Timothy Shanahan • K-12

  7. Research • Closing in on Close Reading by N. Boyles Key Question: What does it mean to bring this strategy into the classroom? • Engaging Children in Close Reading: Multimodal Commentaries and Illustration Remix by B. Dalton Key Question: How does inferring and technology connect with close reading?

  8. Research • Close Reading in Elementary Schools by D. Fisher and N. Frey Key Question: How can close reading be applied to the elementary classroom? • Teaching students to closely read with texts: How and why by D. Lapp Key Question: How can infusing primary sources help students develop critical literacy skills?

  9. Research • The Power and Potential of Primary Sources By D. Morgan and T. Rasinski Key Question: How can infusing primary sources help students develop critical literacy skills? • Engaging the Adolescent Learner: Text Complexity and Close Readings By Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey Key Question: What factors make a text complex and how can close reading better equip students to meet the CCSS?

  10. Handouts • Planning Text Dependent Questions • What are text-dependent questions? • Start with a high quality text • Non text-dependent questions

  11. Text Dependent Questions • Identify key ideas and core understandings of the text. • Start small and build confidence. • Target vocabulary and text structure. • Tackle tough sections head-on. • Create coherent sequences of text dependent questions. • Identify the standards that are being addressed. • Create the culminating assessment. www.achievethecore.org Text Dependent Resources

  12. Resources • Dr. McClennen’s Close Reading Guide • Doing a close reading • Writing it • Close Reading Exemplar Tasks

  13. Book Titles • Beers, K. and Probst, R. (2013). Notice and note: Strategies for close reading. New Hampshire: Heinemann. • Brummett, B. (2010). Techniques of close reading. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. • Cummins, S. (2013). Close reading of informational text: Assessment-driven instruction in grades 3-8. New York: Guilford Press.

  14. Book Study Ideas • Begin a book study with a group. • Start an independent study and become a teacher leader on a topic. • Some books have study guides or podcasts from the authors available from the publishers—check out their websites! • Share your knowledge—start a wiki, a newsletter or blog in your district.

  15. Check back often! • Please check back often for new articles, research, powerpoints or books that might assist you. • As your professional knowledge deepens around the topic of Close Reading, please contact us with your ideas: plscomments@gmail.com

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