Dive into the use of close reading in classroom instruction with this practical, standards-based resource featuring easy-to-use lessons that focus on informational/explanatory, argumentative, or narrative text samples to improve students' reading skills.

- 211 pages
- English
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Connect to Text: Strategies for Close Reading and Writing
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Teaching LanguagesTable of contents
- Cover
- Credits
- Page 3 - Table of Contents
- Page 4 - Table of Contents Cont.
- Page 5 - Introduction
- Page 5 - Key Shifts in Standards and Instructional Objectives
- Page 8 - CLose Reading
- Page 13 - How to Use This Book
- Page 15 - Correlation to Standards
- Page 21 - Strategies for Close Reading and Writing
- Page 33 - Connect to Informational Text
- Page 33 - What is Informational Text?
- Page 33 - Informational Text and Today’s Standards.
- Page 34 - Close Reading and Informational Text
- Page 35 - Writing Informational Text
- Page 36 - Text-Dependent Questions and Prompts to Support Close Reading and Writing of Informational Text
- Page 38 - I Can Work (K–1)
- Page 46 - Choices (2–3)
- Page 53 - Ordering Whole Numbers (4–5)
- Page 62 - Hatshepsut: The Female Pharaoh (6–8)
- Page 72 - The United States Bill of Rights (9–12)
- Page 81 - Connect to Opinion/Argument Text
- Page 81 - What Is Opinion/Argument Text?
- Page 81 - Opinion/Argument Text and Today’s Standards
- Page 82 - Close Reading and Opinion/Argument Text
- Page 83 - Writing Opinion/Argument Text
- Page 83 - Text-Dependent Questions and Prompts to Support Close Reading and Writing of Opinion/Argument Texts
- Page 85 - The Best Job (K–1)
- Page 94 - The Birthday Wish (2–3)
- Page 104 - Let’s Have Year-Round School (4–5)
- Page 114 - Saving Our National Parks (6–8)
- Page 124 - Flag Day Address June 14, 1917 (9–12)
- Page 135 - Connect to Literature
- Page 135 - What Is Literature?
- Page 135 - Literature and Today’s Standards
- Page 135 - Close Reading and Literature
- Page 137 - Writing Literature
- Page 137 - Text-Dependent Questions and Prompts to Support Close Reading and Writing of Literature
- Page 139 - At the Beach (K–1)
- Page 148 - Why the Chipmunk Has Black Stripes (2–3)
- Page 158 - Captain Butterbeard Addresses His Crew (4–5)
- Page 177 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (9–12)
- Page 187 - Appendices
- Page 187 - Appendix A: References Cited
- Page 189 - Appendix B: Answer Key
- Page 203 - Appendix C: Reading Level Chart
- Page 204 - Appendix D: Contents of the Digital Resource CD
- Thank You Page
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