Tag Archives: Close Reading

What is your District Doing to Get Teachers Ready?

In a series of videos posted on Vimeo and titled, “Finding Common Ground: What is your District Doing to Get Teachers Ready?” the National Education Writers Association and the Latino Children Project invited California district superintendents to describe key features … Continue reading

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What is Close Reading?

What is Close Reading? Answer here.

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The Brain on Close Reading

Those of you who are employing the close reading strategy in your classroom may find this Standford news article interesting (here).  Researches are demonstrating that close reading increases neural activity and “how cognition is shaped not just by what we … Continue reading

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America Achieves Films in Reno

As some of you may already know, America Achieves was in Reno to film Washoe educators describing their experience with the Core Task Project and the Close Reading Strategy. The video will likely be posted in February and other districts … Continue reading

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Inservice Course Materials from August 14th and 15th

Below are the material used in the Inservice Course: Aligning Literacy Instruction to the Core. The class is an overview of what has to “shift” in order to meet the new CCSS outcomes. This is an introductory course that will … Continue reading

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