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Agenda Session-2
• Welcome• Shifting Instruction Towards the
Common Core Learning Standards• Why Text Complexity matters?• An introduction to Close Reading• Focusing on Close Reading to deepen
understanding
OutcomesParticipants will…
• Familiarize with complex texts• How to use close reading strategies
to improve student comprehension• A close look at text Dependent
questions
WHY TEXT COMPLEXITY MATTERS
… “if students cannot read complex expository text to gain information, they will likely turn to text-free or text-light sources, such as video, podcasts, and tweets. These sources, while not without value, cannot capture the nuance, subtlety, depth, or breadth of ideas developed through complex texts.”
CCSS ELA Appendix A—pg 4
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How do we help our students to comprehend complex texts?
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WE CAN HELP OUR STUDENTS IN DEEPENING THEIR COMPREHENSION
THROUGH CLOSE READING
What is Close Reading?
What Do You Know About Close Reading
EXAMINING A PATTERNED READING OF “AIN’T I A WOMAN?”
Sojourner Truth
Women’s Convention
Akron, OhioDecember
1851
1st Reading – Read to Get the Gist
What is the speech about?What is Sojourner Truth’s
argument?What claims and counterclaims
does she make?
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2nd Reading Read Again to Interpret the Ideas in
the Text
• Sojourner Truth keeps repeating the question “and ain’t I a woman?”
• What do you think she means by that?• Why do you think she keeps repeating
the question?
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3rd Reading – Read Again Differently to Analyze the
Author’s Methods or Craft
• What methods does Sojourner Truth use to build and support her argument?• How does each method work?
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5th Reading Retrospective
• Reflect on the overarching questions
and the genre
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A Meta-cognitive Moment . . .
• How did your understanding of this complex text deepen as
you used the patterned reading protocol?
VIDEO VIEWING
•Watch the video
•What did you understand by Close Reading ? • Turn to your shoulder
partner and talk.
DEEPENING COMPREHENSION THROUGH CLOSE READING
“Close reading is a careful and purposeful re-reading of a
text.” – Douglas Fisher
Write what you understand by Close Reading (In the middle box)
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BUILDING CAPACITY OF CLOSE READING“FOCUSED READING”
Read pages 1 - 3 from the article “Implementing the Common Core State Standards: ‘A Primer on Close Reading of Text’ ”.
Use your Jounal to code your thinking as you read the article.
Write what you understand by Close Reading (In the center (inner) box)