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Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies for: Choosing Complex Texts ? Creating Text-Dependent Questions ? Teaching Close Reading Lessons
Close Reading for the Whole Class Easy Strategies for Choosing Complex Texts Creating TextDependent Questions Teaching Close Reading Lessons Author:Sandra Athans, Denise Devine Close reading is a key strategy for comprehending the complex texts required by the Common Core. Sandra Athans and Denise Devine unpack this strategy, breaking it down into manageable components and sharing their classroom-tested lessons and teaching tools that guide students step-by-step through close reading grade-level texts. Athans and Devin... more »e demonstrate how to
? select appropriate text for instruction
? develop high-level questions to guide student thinking
? teach students to use evidence to support their responses
? facilitate discussion to further deepen student comprehension
? scaffold struggling readers For use with Grades 2-6.« less