Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom
eBook - ePub

Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom

(Improve Literacy, Reading Comprehension, and Critical-Thinking Skills)

  1. 168 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom

(Improve Literacy, Reading Comprehension, and Critical-Thinking Skills)

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Marzano Resources
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781943360017
eBook ISBN
9781943360024
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Teaching Methods for Reading

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Marzano Research Development Team
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. About the Author
  8. About Marzano Research
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1: Research and Theory
  11. Chapter 2: Prereading
  12. Chapter 3: Reading Twice and Annotating
  13. Chapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading Analytically
  14. Chapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing Activities
  15. Chapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close Reading
  16. Epilogue
  17. Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions
  18. Appendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading
  19. References and Resources
  20. Index