Close Reading Strategies
Collection by Teaching in Room 6
Close Reading strategies aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Pins on this board are designed to help with the implementation of close reading in elementary school and beyond.
How to Implement Close Reading in Science {Free Resource} - Teaching with Jennifer Findley
Close reading in science class? This post shares strategies and a free resource for implementing close reading in science instruction.
Hot Topics (In MY Classroom!)
Hi! I'm Susie! I'm a curriculum developer at Panicked Teacher. On my blog, I share classroom tips, teaching ideas and upper elementary resources.
Contrasts and Contradictions
We finally began looking at the Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading signposts this week, starting with the tried and true Contrasts and Contradictions. I wanted to share with you a few of the things we did in class that helped the students to really grasp the idea of a character acting out of the norm for that particular character. To introduce the signpost to my fifth graders, I began with the "Thank You, Ma'am" lesson in the book. I highly recommend purchasing the book and…
Teaching Students to Close Read When You Can't Mark the Text
Interested in trying close reading with your class but not sure how to implement it without marking the text? Check out these strategies for annotating text
I Read to Write
Upper elementary blog with practical, rigorous, classroom tested ideas to implement with your students.
Struggling Readers Take Home Book for Reading Strategies - Teaching with Jennifer Findley
Sometimes struggling readers need a bit more support to apply reading strategies. Grab free reading strategy printables to make a FREE take-home book!
Understanding Close Reading: Part 1 - What is Close Reading? - Young Teacher Love
I’m back for my next installment on close reading! I am so excited to FINALLY share what I have been working so hard on. A few weeks back, I asked my Facebook followers to rate their understanding and knowledge of close reading. I was shocked to learn that so many teachers didn’t really know much […]
Foreshadowing {in Tuck Everlasting}
Foreshadowing is a technique that authors use all the time, yet I find myself rarely discussing it in class. Well, I thought I would do a little close reading of the prologue in Tuck Everlasting and have the students annotate the text to show evidence of foreshadowing. We started by making an anchor chart for the literary technique. The students took notes in their reading journals. While we did this, the students naturally came up with examples from other books we had read aloud in class…
English Language Arts Print and Go Freebie - Young Teacher Love
Happy snow day everyone! Well…at least to my midwest and northeast friends, right?! BRR! It is cold! I hope you are all staying safe and warm! And to my friends in the south, or wherever you are that’s warm, we are all very jealous! This has been my view for the last two days: I […]
12 Tips for Implementing Close Reading
One of the reasons I did not dig into close reading sooner is that it seemed really intimidating. But, it turns out that while it does go deep - way beyond traditional comprehension - it is not all that mysterious. Once you learn the key pieces - what makes close reading close reading - it becomes less intimidating and more intriguing (or at least it
21 Cool Anchor Charts To Teach Close-Reading Skills
Close reading is a hot topic that's just getting hotter! Here are 21 anchor charts, bulletin board ideas and other resources that you can bring into your classroom to turn your readers into even closer readers.
Understanding Close Reading: Part 1 - What is Close Reading? - Young Teacher Love
I’m back for my next installment on close reading! I am so excited to FINALLY share what I have been working so hard on. A few weeks back, I asked my Facebook followers to rate their understanding and knowledge of close reading. I was shocked to learn that so many teachers didn’t really know much […]
Nonfiction Text: Reading with a Purpose
Upper elementary blog with practical, rigorous, classroom tested ideas to implement with your students.
Common Core Reading Homework Review for Upper Elementary
Need homework to prepare your students for the state assessment? This Common Core Reading Homework is perfect for meaningful practice of the standards.
Close Reading | Tales from Outside the Classroom
A look at Close Reading and how to implement it in the classroom.
Teaching about Story Conflict
Not sure if you are noticing a pattern here with my posts, but I am seriously working on fiction and narrative in my class. I just feel like getting them to really understand literature well enough to then have to write about and like it (on THE TEST at the end of the year) is going to take a lot of front loading and targeted instruction on my part. So this week, we focused on *conflict* in a story. We have tackled plot, character, and setting, so it seemed only natural that conflict would…