Rigorous Reading across
Disciplines
GOALS
•Participants will leave with key instructional
strategies and processes to support teachers in
the implementation of Common Core Literacy
across subject areas
•Participants will leave with a process and tools
to immediately establish a common definition of
rigor with observable look-fors for their school
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CCSS Instructional Shifts
•Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction & informational texts
•Reading & Writing grounded in evidence
from text
•Regular practice with complex text & its
academic vocabulary
FOCUS QUESTION:
How can we make the rigor of the CCSS accessible
for all students?
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Segment 1:
A Process for Close
Reading Instruction
Teaching Close Reading
Guided
Collaborative
Independent
Assessment
Opportunity
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Segment 1 continued:
Close Reading:
Moving Beyond a
Graphic Organizer
Guided Reading
1. First Reading – First Impressions
► Making meaning (comprehension)
► Read and highlight difficult or meaningful words
1. Second Reading – Vocabulary in Context
► Meaning and effect (analysis)
► Identify important sentences and use
metacognitive markers (? ! *)
1. Third Reading – Text Dependent Questions
► Key Ideas and details (interpretation)
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Synthesizing Your Ideas!
1. Fill out the assigned section of your SOAPSTone
graphic organizer, including textual support for
your responses
2. Share out with the group
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Segment 2:
Collaborative Practice:
OPTIC
Teaching Close Reading
Guided
Collaborative
Independent
Assessment
Opportunity
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OPTIC
Goal: Identify and Interpret multiple details in a
visual text (Close Reading of a Visual)
Overview
Parts
Title
Interrelationships
Conclusion
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Segment 3:
Independent Reading
Teaching Close Reading
Guided
Collaborative
Independent
Assessment
Opportunity
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Segment 4:
Assessment
Teaching Close Reading
Guided
Collaborative
Independent
Assessment
Opportunity
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Writing Prompt
Quindlen’s essay and Lincoln’s second
inaugural address both express the
message that it is important for people in
America to move past divisions to a more
perfect union. How does the painting of
George Washington crossing the Delaware
express the same ideas visually?
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CCSS Instructional Shifts
•Building knowledge through content-rich
nonfiction & informational texts
•Reading & Writing grounded in evidence
from text
•Regular practice with complex text & its
academic vocabulary
FOCUS QUESTION:
In my specific discipline, how can we make the
rigor of the CCSS accessible for all students?
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Rigorous Instruction
Rigorous instruction operates within, but at the
outer edge of, students’ ability to master the
content as evidenced by the standards.
Rigorous instruction includes the following:
•Content that focuses on depth over breadth
•Strategies that scaffold students through
varying cognitive levels
•Assessments designed to measure students’
ability to synthesize learning and adapt that
knowledge to different contexts
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Thank you!
For more information:
www.collegeboard.org/springboard
Mathew Ostendorf
mostendorf@collegeboard.org
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