Close Reading Strategies for CCGPS
Daniel Rock, Literacy Specialist
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OCTOBER 2011
Possible Sentences
complex text
text based evidence
integrated
college and career readiness
academic vocabulary
literacy standards
argument
anchor standards
Write four sentences. Use two of the above
words in each sentence until all words are gone.
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Learning Target
• I can explain the reasoning and big ideas
behind the Common Core Standards
• I can use strategies to scaffold my students
ability to read text closely.
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Today’s Plan
• The Why and What
• Close Reading Strategy (Task Cards)
• Close Reading Jigsaw
• Argument
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The Why and the What
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What Do We Expect?
Student
Behaviors?
Student
Achievement
Teacher
Behaviors?
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Reading Study Summary
Interquartile Ranges Shown (25% - 75%)
Text Lexile Measure (L)
1600
1400
1200
1000
800
600
High
School
Literature
College
Literature
High
School
Textbooks
College
Textbooks
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* Source of National Test Data: MetaMetrics
Military
Personal
Use
Entry-Level
Occupations
SAT 1,
ACT,
AP*
…The Three Big Shifts
• Building content knowledge through (reading)
rich nonfiction
• Reading, writing, and speaking grounded in
evidence from the text, both literary and
informational.
• Regular practice with complex text and its
academic language.
-Student Achievement Partners
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Key Ideas and
Details
Anchor Standard 1: Read closely to
determine what the text says explicitly and
to make logical inferences from it; cite
specific textual evidence when writing or
speaking to support conclusions drawn from
the text.
9th Grade: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to
support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well
as inferences drawn from the text.
6th Grade: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
3rd Grade: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a
text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
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Craft and Structure
Anchor Standard 5: Analyze the structure of texts,
including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger
portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or
stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
9th and 10th Grades: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or
claims are developed and refined by particular sentences,
paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or
chapter)
6th Grade :Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or
section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the
development of the ideas.
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3rd Grade: Use
text
features
and
search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars,
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locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
Close Reading
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They skip, skim, and scan
text continually based on
their purpose. They also
reread, slow down, and
reread again if it suits their
purpose.
They know a purpose will
help them focus their
reading and determine
what is important. They
also know that purpose
determines how they read
the material.
Good readers approach
assigned text with a result
in mind. They
consider what
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information after reading.
What Do Good Readers Do?
You Mean I have to Teach Reading by
Chris Tovani.
Students read
deeply and
analytically, able to
comprehend
and make
inferences about
what they read.
Setting a Purpose/Asking
Questions
“Millions saw the apple fall,
but Newton was the one
who asked why.”
-Bernard Baruch
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Close Reading Process
Students read
the text silently.
Teacher
provides a
purpose.
Students read
again and
annotate/create
questions.
Teacher reads
the text
aloud/models
thinking.
High-light
unknown/significant
words
Students find explicit
meaning, inferences, central
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themes
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Write/ask
questions
Q-Cards
Critical Element: Asking the Right
Questions
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Using Q-Cards to Set a Purpose
Scaffolding
Question - Stems
What does the author mean
when she says_________?
Which details in the story
help show ________?
What is the primary topic
Of this article?
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Groups-Elementary
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Author’s purpose/perspective
Main Idea
Cause and Effect
Text Structures/Organizational Patterns
Relevant Supporting Details
Compare/Contrast
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Groups- Middle/High
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Main Idea
Text Structure/Organizational Patterns
Validity and Reliability
Compare/Contrast
Analyze and Evaluate Information
Author’s Purpose and Perspective
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Close Reading Process
Students read
the text silently.
Teacher
provides a
purpose.
What is the primary topic
Of this text?
Students read
again and
annotate/create
questions.
Teacher reads
the text
aloud/models
thinking.
High-light
unknown/significant
words
Students find explicit
meaning, inferences, central
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ideas,
themes
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Georgians”
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Write/ask
questions
Q-Cards
Jigsaw of Close Reading
Strategies
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Jig-Saw
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•
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1. Establish a home group.
2. Count off within home group 1-6.
3. Read silently and begin activity on your own.
4. Find “expert group” and complete activity
together.
• 5. Return to home group and share results.
Take notes based on what you hear.
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Expert Groups
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•
•
•
•
•
1s: Close Reading of Text
2s: Anticipation Guides
3s: RAFT
4s: Squeepers
5s: Key Concept Synthesis
6s: History Events Chart
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Why Arguments?
• Students like to argue (but they often do not
know how to argue well).
• Recognizing arguments that are not based on
evidence is part of being an informed citizen.
• Arguments clarify the relevance and
importance of understanding the content.
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Argument
• “Knowing a lot of stuff won’t do you much
good unless you can do something with what
you know by turning it into an argument.”
• Gerald Graff, “An Argument Worth Having”
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And the best reason of all-• Controversy clarifies, . . . intellectual issues
become intelligible to us at points of
controversy, when we become able to see
who’s where on the issues, what the
relationships between positions are, and
what’s at stake.”
• Gerald Graff, “Clueless in Academe”
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So Let’s Argue—Well
• The Toulmin Method
– Make a claim
– Based on evidence
– Include a warrant that explains how the evidence
supports the claim
– Add backing that supports the warrants
– Incorporate qualifications and rebuttals (counter
arguments) to refute competing claims
– From George Hillocks, Teaching Argument Writing (2011)
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Strategies to Help Students Argue
Well
• Claim
– Four Corners/Vote with your Feet
– They say/I say
• Evidence
– Evaluating Evidence graphic organizer
• Warrant
– Warrant Workout
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Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent
“Making Education Work for All Georgians”
www.gadoe.org
3/24/2016
Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent
“Making Education Work for All Georgians”
www.gadoe.org
3/24/2016
Possible Sentences
complex text
text based evidence
integrated
college and career readiness
academic vocabulary
literacy standards
argument
anchor standards
Write four sentences. Use two of the above
words in each sentence until all words are gone.
Dr. John D. Barge, State School Superintendent
“Making Education Work for All Georgians”
www.gadoe.org
3/24/2016
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Daniel Rock, drock@doe.k12.ga.us
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Gerald Boyd, gboyd@doe.k12.ga.us
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