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Category Archives: Close Reading
First Person Account of Close Reading
In a piece for Teachers.net, English teacher Sarah Powley describes her experience with close reading. She matches here experience from when she started as a novice educator to a veteran in noting the limitations of the materials she was using … Continue reading
Draft of the Close Reading Exemplar “Farewell Speech” Now Available
Third and fourth grade teachers in the Core Task implementation Project (CTiP) worked on a grade 4 close reading exemplar matched to Lou Gehrig’s “Farwell Speech.” Cathy Schmidt (Scoop.it! page here) edited the piece and you can find a draft … Continue reading
Contra Costa Trains on the CTP
The Contra Costa County Office of Education sponsored a training on the Core Task Project to assist with refining and aligning instruction to the Core. Close to 100 educators, from the region, gathered to move through the first day of … Continue reading
Shanahan on CCSS Policy (Webinar)
Text Project has posted a free webinar on the Common Core with CCSS Work Team member Dr. Timothy Shanahan (here). Shanahan moves viewers through some familiar stuff including the genesis of CCSS and the “Big Changes to ELA.” The changes … Continue reading
Selecting Texts for Close Reading
Jan Burkins and Kim Yaris outline the importance of picking the right texts for close reading. That is, educators need to be acutely aware that texts worth reading will force students “to look and look again and wonder about what … Continue reading
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Social Emotional Learning and the Common Core
The district paired Social Emotional Learning and the Core Task Project as a means of seeing how the two projects could work with each other. Kindergarten through sixth grade teachers gathered and moved through the first day of content which included … Continue reading
Close Reading Exemplar Updated
The close reading exemplar, The President’s Message, used during the November 29th training has been updated and retitled. Thank you to the teachers who shared feedback and suggestions for editing. You can find the new version here. Given the content … Continue reading
Guiding Principles of the Arts
Those who are familiar with the close reading strategy will likely appreciate this document from the New York State Department of Education: Guiding Principles of the Arts. As in close reading, careful observation and attention to what the artist (or … Continue reading
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Close Reading
Erica Beaton has put together the following Prezi on Close Reading. As you flip through the presentation, explicit connections are made from this instructional approach to the standards, to the 2014-2015 assessment and to College and Career Readines Erica has … Continue reading
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Tagged CCSS, Close Reading, College and Career Readiness, Common Core, Erica Beaton, SBAC
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Core Task Project 