Help with close reading and Note-Making

Reading for Understanding

How to use the Three Close Reads Protocol to create Cornell Study Notes that will help you master any objective test that comes your way.

​Let's start by learning why the Three Close Read Protocol is helpful and how you should be using it to read OER documents closely. Listen to the video and be ready to address aspects of the video right after - take out those notes.

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Learning with OER...

Multiple Choice

Why do the OER reading offer students multiple reading levels?

• To make reading fast

• To make reading easy

• To make articles "doable" for every student given what they are comfortable with on that day.

• To challenge students to get better at reading by the end of the year.

Drag and Drop

The OER project developed the 3 Close Reads protocol to help students read like ​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

A Historian

A High Level Reader

An excellent reader

A slow poke

​Listen to more of this video to help you continue to develop deeper understandings of why the close read protocol can help you learn better from the readings the OER provides you.

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Let's learn some more

Categorize

Options (3)

A Skim or 1/4 read - kind of like a tasting of the reading - Educated guess of Main Idea

A full read but not slow and meticulous - more like a read with purpose - use questions to help

A opportunity to review, test yourself, connect, corroborate with other readings

Organize these options into the right categories

First Read

Second Read

Third Read