Close Reading

Close reading is a great way to get students to dig in and analyze a text. Read 15 practical close reading tips to help you implement this strategy.

This free close reading anchor chart is so helpful! Print it in color or black and white.

Close Reading is an important skill in working with nonfiction text. In our new unit, students are expected to interact with nonfiction text in a way that encourages analysis and inferences. Close Reading means reading a text multiple times in order to deeply understand it. We have begun practicing this with news articles at a 5th grade reading level. This is the anchor chart they are using to remember the task for each reading. Reading #1 = Read for understanding. After this reading…

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Whether you are already using close reading strategies in your own upper elementary classroom or not, you’ll love using free close reading passages like The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie! By using a purposeful, high interest set of close reading passages with proven reading comprehension strategies, your students will enjoy a greater level of reading success. Here is everything included in your FREE close reading passages download: The History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie Reading…

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What Reading Strategies Work In Every Content Area? by TeachThought Staff Reading is simply a sequence of symbol interpretation. By understanding that letters make sounds, we can blend those sounds together to make whole sounds that symbolize meaning we can all exchange with one another. By mastering the symbols and their most common contexts, reading becomes a practice in thought--less about decoding and more about understanding. Without getting too Platonic about it all, reading doesn't…

Interactive notebooks

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!