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Description

Close, critical, and generative reading can be broken down into five key questions that a strategic reader must answer: What does the text say? How does the author say it? What does the text mean? What does it mean to me? What insights can I now gain? In this resource, the authors show that insight into these questions is the key to comprehending text. The authors provide tools such as mining charts, assessments, progress monitoring charts, and rubrics to strengthen the teaching and use of strategies including guided highlighted reading for craft, finding the element of argument in text, reading multiple texts for theme, and evaluating visual text. A culminating chapter provides a blueprint for creating a literacy action plan for classroom, school, and district that highlights students? growth and documents teacher effectiveness.

Features:
? Assessments, progress monitoring charts, and rubrics
? Strategies that prompt students to read for craft
? Links to specific mentor texts for guided highlighted reading
? Links to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

Ideal For:
? Using the close reading strategy
? Understanding how to help students navigate complex text
? Helping students gain insight by accessing text
? Documenting student growth and boosting teacher effectiveness

Grades:

4-12

Author(s):

Cynthia Schofield, Elaine M. Weber, & Gerri Newnum

Publisher:

Maupin House

Year:

2014

Pages:

200 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781625215222