Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies For: Choosing Complex Texts - Creating Text-Dependent Questions - Teaching Close Reading Skills

Close reading is a key strategy for comprehending the complex texts required by the Common Core. Sandra Athans and Denise Devine unpack this strategy, breaking it down into manageable components and sharing their classroom-tested lessons and teaching tools that guide students step-by-step through close reading grade-level texts. Athans and Devine demonstrate how to: - select appropriate text for instruction - develop high-level questions to guide student thinking - teach students to use evidence to support their responses - facilitate discussion to further deepen student comprehension - scaffold struggling readers