Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom ((Improve Literacy, Reading Comprehension, and Critical-Thinking Skills))

Close-reading strategies help students develop the literacy and critical-thinking skills essential for the rest of their lives. Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom offers high school and middle school educators extensive guidance on how to introduce close-reading strategies to students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills and critical thinking. Learn how to select close-reading examples and passages, elicit deeper question formation, facilitate positive classroom discussion, and assess your students' reading comprehension skills and literacy progress.

Use research-based close-reading instruction strategies to increase student literacy and critical-thinking skills:

• Understand the importance of close reading, prereading, and post-reading activities.
• Learn how to choose appropriate literary or informational texts for close reading.
• Pass on tools necessary for literary analysis and annotating text.
• Develop thought-provoking questions and discussion that deepen text analysis and reading comprehension skills.
• Assess students' creative- and critical-thinking skills.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Research and Theory
Chapter 2: Prereading
Chapter 3: Reading Twice and Annotating
Chapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading Analytically
Chapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing Activities
Chapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close Reading
Epilogue
Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions
Appendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading

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