Close Reading

Close reading, broken down with a FREE planning page that works for any text

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Close reading anchor chart to introduce the benefits and purpose of close reading to your students

It's so important to explicitly teach your students how to annotate texts when they are close reading. Anytime we are looking at multiple (or paired passages) students need the skills to know how to mark up and annotate each text. This FREE resource will help them to build these important skills!

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

Close reading questions to use with engaging literature choices that provide rich vocabulary and stunning illustration and a close reading cheat sheet.

Read this helpful article about using the close reading strategy for narrative text and download the instructional worksheet.

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Close reading tips for the upper elementary classroom for nonfiction and content area reading. How to plan for close reading and how to have students close read informational text tips are included.

When it comes to teaching close reading and annotation, is there anything worse than seeing your students mindlessly highlighting for pages and pages with no real understanding of what they're highlighting or why they're highlighting it? The frustrating part is that highlighting indicates that they're trying, but it often shows that they don't understand why.