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Tag Archives: Close 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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Tagged Burkins, CCSS, Close Reading, Common Core State Standards, Yaris
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Implementing CCSS in the Secondary Grades
Angela Orr, Washoe’s Teaching American History Project Director, shared the following for those interested in bringing the CCSS into the secondary grades. (Important tools are linked at the bottom of the post.) In an effort to scale the work of … 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
Shanahan on the topic of Instructional Shifts
Dr. Timothy Shanahan describes the Instructional Shifts in the following webinar. Marked are several pieces that you may want to visit including Close Reading. 4:47: “…these standards are so profoundly different big shifts in teaching are necessary.” 7:44: Shannon compares … Continue reading
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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An Authentic Close Read
In a video on Youtube, a teacher posted her use of the close reading strategy with Martin Luther King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” The video is as authentic as you can get with students wrestling with a series of … Continue reading
Common Core Champions Now Linked to Blog
Washoe County recently identified 15 Common Core Champions. These are classroom teachers who are implementing the CCSS with an emphasis on what has to shift instructionally. You can contact them directly, through the frame at the top of this page … Continue reading
A Primer on “Close Reading of a Text”
This week the Aspen Institute published “Implementing the Common Core State Standards: A Primer on ‘Close Reading of Text’” (here). Coauthored by Sheila Brown and Lee Kappes, the primer defines close reading, provides strategies for its implementation, and connects this … Continue reading
Guidance for the ELA Common Core
The International Reading Association recently released a document entitled “Literacy Implementation Guidance for the ELA Common Core State Standards” (here). The document was created to contend with “confusion” and “conflicting messages” governing the implementation of the CCSS. Among the recommendations: … Continue reading
Core Shift Blast 4: Close Reading
The Core Shift Blast for October 10th was shared today. You can access it here. You can review previous blasts by clicking here. The focus this week is on the Close Reading Strategy and includes insights into using this instructional … Continue reading
Core Task Project 