building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational text. reading, writing, and...

Building knowledge through content-rich nonfiction and informational text.

Reading, writing, and speaking grounded

in evidence from text, both literary and informational.

Regular practice with complex text and its academic vocabulary.

Shifts in ELAfrom TNCore.org

TNCore Rationale TNCore Rationale for Close Readingfor Close Reading

“The Common Core State Standards for

English Language Arts ask students to read

closely and carefully. They require careful,

close reading be done with texts of greater

complexity than has generally been the case

in America’s public schools.”

www.tncore.org

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

The text is worth the time…

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

The text of the exemplar is presented early within the lesson…

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

Students…read the text independently…listen to the text selection read orally…return to the text repeatedly

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

Subsections of the full passage are singled out for…rereading and…investigating with questions that can only be answered by carefully consulting the text

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

Tier Two words and difficult syntax emphasized with discussion of text-dependent questions

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

Deepen comprehension through discussion BEFORE students respond through a writing task

TNCore Key Components TNCore Key Components of Close Readingof Close Reading

The text is worth the time… The text of the exemplar is presented early within the

lesson… Students

…read the text independently…listen to the text selection read orally…return to the text repeatedly

Subsections of the full passage are singled out for…rereading and…investigating with ?s that can only be answered by carefully consulting the text

Tier Two words and difficult syntax emphasized with discussion of text-dependent ?s

Deepen comprehension through discussion BEFORE students respond through a writing task

1Bring today’s materials with you.2Bring an excerpt that you will teach this year that you can relate to “In Pursuit.”3Bring two other excerpts that you will teach this year.

Close Reading II: Preparation