![]() ![]() ![]() This process will support students' critical thinking skills and will allow them to actively and skillfully engage in interpretation, analysis, evaluation and sythesis of information in a text. Close reading will focus not only on the vocabulary and ideas in the text, but may also include discussion surrounding text structures, text features and illustrations.Įffective readers use appropriate strategies to construct meaning through a close reading. Due to the scaffolded nature of close reading, a grade-level appropriate, complex text is needed in order to promote deep thinking and stretch students as readers. K-1 teachers will model the purpose and goals of each reading through interactive read alouds. The same text is read for specific purposes three times. It is important for K-1 teachers to use the gradual release of responsibility model when utilizing this structure. Close reading is an instructional tool that activitely engages students in reading and responding to complex text. ![]()
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