Close reading strategies

Take close reading to the next level in your classroom. Use the six Close Reading steps guide from Appletastic Learning for a deeper understanding of text.

Close reading, broken down with a FREE planning page that works for any text

When it comes to teaching close reading and annotation, is there anything worse than seeing your students mindlessly highlighting for pages and pages with no real understanding of what they're highlighting or why they're highlighting it? The frustrating part is that highlighting indicates that they're trying, but it often shows that they don't understand why.

3 Go-To Close Reading Strategies by Abi Frost With the shift to Common Core State Standards, there has been lots of talk of “close reading.” As a reading specialist, my responsibility is to help m…

There has been lots of talk about close reading at my school site but there haven't been many people actually doing it. I tried it out after seeing another teacher's anchor chart and got up the courage to try something new in the classroom...once again. Seems like there's always something new doesn't it? Anyway, my class and I were doing a close reading of a section in our history textbook. There are so many opportunities to incorporate reading strategies to all core content areas! So we…

Yoingstown SpEd & Resource Teachers Close Reading Day 3

It's so important to explicitly teach your students how to annotate texts when they are close reading. Anytime we are looking at multiple (or paired passages) students need the skills to know how to mark up and annotate each text. This FREE resource will help them to build these important skills!

Reading comprehension is one of the most important reading skills for students to build on and improve. Close reading is a valuable reading strategy that can help kids build comprehension, especially students who are entering 5th, 6th, & 7th grades or middle school. Learn some of the best reasons to specifically teach close reading strategies & a few easy tricks that will help kids learn to value this essential skill. I'm also sharing one of my favorite close reading activities ever!

Close reading is an effective strategy to help students analyze texts. But it doesn’t come without challenges. Learn close reading strategies to implement today on this post.

As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me - it just clicked. When I had students that didn't improve their reading with my strategies, I didn't understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I am un