Close Reading Strategies | Close Reading Strategies Fiction

Close Reading Strategies | Close Reading Strategies Fiction

Close Reading Strategies for The Common Core

Close Reading is a way to teach analytical reading and critical thinking in one lesson. Close reading is the foundation for all explicit and rhetorical reading exercises that demand a deeper understanding of literary works. Close reading can be presented in a simple form for students starting out and progressively advanced to a highly complex analyses of advanced literary concepts suited for graduate students. Close reading and critical thinking plus higher order questioning go hand in hand.

Close Reading Strategy Number 1 | Find and List all the Literary Elements

Close Reading Strategy Number 2 | Find all Literary or Poetic Devices

Close Reading Strategy Number 3 | Do a word analyses of important or unknown words

Close Reading Strategy Number 4 | Chart and analyze the main characters dialogue

Close Reading Strategy Number 5 | Create 2-5 Webb’s DOK questions you would ask the author about intent, view point, or motivation relating to characters and plot  

Close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation or analyses of a brief passage of text. Such a reading places great emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read.

Close Reading (Elementary) PDF

CLOSE READING IN THE PRIMARY GRADES

Close Reading Overview