Rigorous and complex texts have been all the talk among school administrators and teachers. However, reading a text is more complex and rigorous is not about the selection of the text. Rather, it’s about targeting multi-faceted, critical thinking during the reading of the selected text.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to plan and facilitate a meaningful close reading in four steps:
- Define close reading
- Integrate close reading
- Plan a close reading
- Facilitate a close reading
Workshop Details
Topics covered
- Dissect the reading standards for close-reading expectations.
- Identify how and when close reading should be incorporated into the curriculum.
- Learn how to assess a text’s complexity beyond simply looking at its reading level.
- Recognize the role of pre-reading/background-building in close-reading experiences.
- Examine a variety of reader tools and technology that allow students to annotate print and digital texts.
Learn how to
- Determine if a text is complex and worthy of a close reading.
- Introduce close reading to students in a variety of kid-friendly ways.
- Prepare a set of text-dependent questions that keep students rooted in the text and follow the same sequence as standardized reading assessments.
- Teach students ways to track and annotate the journey of their thinking.
- Facilitate text-based conversations that require textual evidence.