Resources for the Reading Closely Unit
Steps to Becoming a Professional Reader:
A good reader:
Use the notes and worksheets below to guide you.
- first asks some initial questions (use the Guiding Questions handout for suggestions).
- then creates text-based questions that have come from the reading and will help focus his or her analysis and deepen his or her meaning of the text.
Use the notes and worksheets below to guide you.
Reading Closely for Details Guiding Questions
Reading Closely for Details Guiding Questions: Handout of useful guiding questions to help the reader form initial questions when first approaching text.
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Questioning Texts Graphic Organizer
REMEMBER
Approaching Texts:
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Questioning Texts Worksheet: Handout to guide initial approach of a text (I have included a blank Questioning Texts worksheet and one that explains how to respond)
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Analyzing Details Worksheet: Handout
Reader develops a deeper analysis of the text by
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Reading Closely / Text Packet:
Text Packet Number One includes eleven (11) non-fiction texts - We will cover some of them in the first section of the Reading Closely Unit
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Text#5:
Colin Powell: "Kids Need Structure"
Reading Closely / Fiction (Literary Works):
Forming Evidence-Based Claims for Literature: Handout of useful guiding questions to help the reader form initial questions when first approaching a literary work.
Forming Evidence-Based Claims Handout: The reader uses this graphic organizer to choose three related details and then uses them to make a text-specific claim. Making Evidence-Based Claims: This graphic organizer helps organize two separate evidence-based claims. Writing Evidence-Based Claims Rubric: This rubric will assist you in knowing how you will be assessed and graded. |
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