What is Close Reading?

One of the topics we focused on in our data team meetings this month is close reading.  You might be wondering what is close reading?  It can be defined as a careful and close REREADING of a text.  Typically students

This is a great anchor chart with ideas for marking text.

Check out this blog post for some great ideas for doing a close read. Some key points include:
- using SHORT passages or excerpts (this could be a couple paragraphs to several pages to a chapter in a longer book depending on grade level).
-limited pre-reading activities - rereading deliberately -discussing the text with others-responding to text dependent questions


Here are TONS of ideas on Pinterest that will help you support your students for close reading.  Check out this video about bringing close reading and accountable talk into an interactive read aloud of gorillas.


Bringing Close Reading and Accountable Talk into an Interactive Read Aloud of Gorillas (3-5) from TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo.