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National Humanities Center

Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...
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New York State Education Department

TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Get Close to Think Deeply: Creating Primary Level Close Readings

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This strategy guide focuses on planning and implementing close reading of complex text in the primary grades which fosters progressively deeper thinking as students become more responsible for their own learning. It offers a step-by-step...
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Other

Carson Newman College: Close Reading of a Literary Passage [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a number of questions that students can ask themselves about a literary passage when doing a "Close Reading" and following this with an organized piece of writing. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.5
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Read Like This a Strategy for Close Reading of Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn and practice close reading strategies to help increase your understanding of how to approach challenging and complex texts.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, students practice reading closely so that you can identify the choices that help create tone, diction, and irony.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on close reading, the careful, sustained reading of a text. One strategy to help you read closely is to ask yourself questions such as What is your overall impression of the passage? What mood does the passage...
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Harvard University

Harvard College Writing Center: How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A brief explanation of the tasks involved in doing a close reading in preparation for writing. This writer breaks the process into three steps which involve annotating the text, looking for patterns, and asking questions of the text.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students practice close reading strategies to help them understand a writer's tone. They will examine the writer's choice of diction, details, and irony to identify the writer's attitude.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 1 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th
As you read through the texts in this lesson, you will practice close reading strategies to help you understand a writer's tone. You'll be examining the writer's choice of diction, details, and irony to identify the writer's attitude.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center

Wisconsin Rt I Center: Close Reading [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Teachers will learn about the importance of close reading. Teachers will learn how to implement close reading; measure progress of close reading; and find research to support close reading. A list of close reading activities are also...
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: How to Teach Close Reading With Complex Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This instructional video demonstrates ways to incorporate "close reading" with complex text. [56:53]
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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University (Dr. Mc Clennen): How to Do a Close Reading

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This guide is written for college students, but should be very useful for upper level high school students as well. The writer first describes fourteen steps to take in doing a close reading, then provides six pieces of advice on how to...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Through this practice lesson, students will learn how to interpret poetry. They will learn how to spot a metaphor, to identify imagery, and be introduced to the terms...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3 (English Ii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Doing the exercises in this lesson will help students comprehend the poet's meaning by giving them practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 2 (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read carefully in order to identify allusion, imagery, metaphor, and symbolism and to evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text. RL.9-10.9 alllusions to other works.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Iii Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...
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Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library: Close Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan teaches students to consider diction, syntax, literary devices, and rhetorical strategies in doing a close reading of Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Carson Newman College: Critical Reading of an Essay's Argument

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Extensive examination of what it means to critically read an argument. This process is sometimes called "critical reading," or "close reading," or "active reading." First the differences between reading to extract information and reading...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Close Read: Casey at the Bat

For Teachers 4th - 5th Standards
Students will read "Casey at the Bat" and "Mighty Jackie: The Strikeout Queen" in order to compare and contrast the themes of these texts. Detailed lesson and Venn Diagram worksheet included.
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Mantex: Tutorials: What Is Close Reading?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the four types of reading: Linguistic, Semantic, Structural, and Cultural and offers a detailed example of close reading. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem, RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Close Reading of Poetry: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson will help you comprehend the poet's meaning by giving you practice in finding imagery, metaphors, symbolism, and allusions.

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