It's Ocean Week!! Today we were focusing on sea turtles. They're a pretty cute creature of the sea by my standards. Especially the babie...
\\\LOG-CT1287\\\ Clone Captain of the 82nd Regiment Location: Unknown Regions-Ryloth - “We’ve accompanied the 212th attack battalion and followed them into the city of Nabatieh. This city is completely abandoned, I assumed after the droids were defeated the inhabitants would come back. But many things kept the locals from reuniting with their former homes. Including various damages left by the droids. Many buildings and roads were reduced to rubble near the center of the city. Damage is only slight near the outskirts where we patrol. We’ve been tasked with locating and eliminating as many of the Insurgent groups that joined the chaos after the Seperatists were pushed out. These groups range from very experienced older groups to rowdy rebellious teens with a passion for explosives. We’ve also heard rumors of a group of insurgent command droids in the area. These droids have been tormenting the locals for months, even before the seppys arrived. Me and my squad haven’t faced to many challenges. But we expect to face much harder resistance as we get closer to the city center. But we also are ready for night combat as it gets darker. We’ve all equipped lights to our helmets and are on high alert. “ \\\CT-1287 OUT///
I am wondering how many of you do Close Reading in your classroom? If you do, how do you approach it? Have you had amazing or lackluster re...
Hey friends! I told you before that we are just starting to venture into the close read “realm.” This was our fourth close read this year. We had previously done Pumpkin Town by Katie McKy, The Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant, Reindeer {A Day in the Life} by Katie Marsico, and now Penguins by Anne Schreiber. I am no expert and only know...
Happy almost Friday! We are wrapping up our nonfiction read on frogs this week and oh my did we have a blast! When I say we I mean me too! Every close read I feel like I learn even more then the kiddos! There is nothing more exciting to see my kiddos SO excited about something!...
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"Research (Raphael, 1984) suggests that the value of QAR instruction lies in the way it clarifies how students can approach the task of reading texts and answering questions."
Water Walk Experiment FREEBIE perfect for lower grades to study capillary action. Also a new and Bumblebee Close Read
Close reading must be stretched over several lessons to truly dive deep into each short text with annotation, text-dependent questions for purpose, discussions, and analysis. This post breaks down what should be done over the course of three days with one poem.
3rd and 4th Grade reading comprehension Bundle of Resources - passages and questions, games, and close reading activities bundle.Students use a variety of close reading activities for text evidence including color-coding with highlighters. This can be done on paper, or using the highlighting featu...
Close read--the highlighting and color coding in a novel or an article that basically killed any enjoyment that may have come from the reading, right?
Read by Eric Close. What begins as a neighborly overture between a painterly pig and an artsy cow escalates into a monumental modern art mess!
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Aidan Chambers werd op 27 december 1934 geboren in Chester le Street, een mijnwerkersstadje in het noordoosten van Engeland. Hij was het enige kind van ongeletterde ouders. Dankzij Jim Osborne, leraar Engels op zijn middelbare school, ontwikkelde hij een passie … Lees verder →
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With the push for common core and the strive to have students dig deeper within a text. Close reading requires the students to develop their own thinking while reading while learning to engage with the text in the process. Specifically, the common core standards state that students must 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. Over the past few months, I have been using close reading in my classroom almost daily and I've seen students improve significantly in the way they read. So you might be asking....what is close reading? Close reading involves the reading short passages - not whole texts. In primary grades, short picture books may be used. The text should be complex. Students should read the passage multiple times for different purposes. Questions should be text dependent and focus on vocabulary, details, text structure, inferencing, author's purpose, main idea, and forming opinions. Students must interact with the text by coding it with various symbols that have meaning. Now, there are various sources that give a specific sequence and structure that one should follow when doing close readings with your students, but I have adapted it just a bit to fit the needs in my classroom. I have students in literature centers each day and am able to meet with every group for about 15 minutes. During this time, five days a week, I work on close reading, and really, 15 minutes a day is all that my students really need to be successful. DAY 1 On the first day, the students set a purpose for reading. I read the text aloud. While I'm reading, students must interact with the text by marking it using the symbols I provided them. Students briefly summarize the passage with a partner. We complete one reading strategy page that relates with the text. DAY 2 We preview the vocabulary activity page for the day. The students reread the text with a partner. While reading, students continue interacting with the text. Perhaps they found a new vocabulary word they'd like to circle. We complete the vocabulary page. Students choose their own words to use. DAY 3 We preview the comprehension questions for the passage. Students read the passage on their own silently. I encourage them to put a star (important information symbol) for answers they find while they are reading. After reading on their own, students can easily go back in the text to find their stars and answer questions. We discuss our answers as a group. DAY 4 The students take a look at the activity page for the reading strategy they will focus on today. We read as a group. Students rotate reading paragraphs. Depending on the nature of the page, students will fill it out on their own, with a partner, or we will discuss as a group. DAY 5 The students take a look at the activity page for the reading strategy they will focus on today. The students will whisper read the passage for the purpose we set. Depending on the nature of the page, students will fill it out on their own, with a partner, or we will discuss as a group. At the conclusion of the group meeting, students discuss how they liked the passage, questions they still have, connections they made, etc. Now, if you have 15 minutes a day to work with small groups, you can definitely use the model I suggested above. If not, this works well as a whole-group activity as well. The first week I did close readings, I actually did it in place of morning work so I could model the process to the whole class. This worked well, but I really like the nature of small groups so each child is able to contribute to the conversations we have. Would you like to try close reading in your classroom? I have this FREEBIE that you can download to test it with your students. The free passage and five activities is part of a larger unit I have for sale in my TpT store. HERE. I am currently selling monthly bundles of 4 texts that range from a 2nd-4th grade reading level. Each text is paired with 5 pages for students to use to dig deeper. You can find the monthly units HERE. I am currently working on creating them for each month students are in school. I hope to be finished soon!Take a look at my video preview to see everything included in a unit and to get ideas of how you can use it in your classroom!
On the Pumpelly Trail, heading for the summit of Mt. Monadnock.
