Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom

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:IntroductionChapter 1: Research and TheoryChapter 2: PrereadingChapter 3: Reading Twice and AnnotatingChapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading AnalyticallyChapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing ActivitiesChapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close ReadingEpilogueAppendix A: Answers to Comprehension QuestionsAppendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading