Why is close reading important?

• Teaches students to seek out a micro-level of understanding.
• It focuses on retelling a story.
• It focuses on main ideas and supporting details.
• It helps to see small print.

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is the recommended focus on a first reading?

• Craft and structure
• integration of knowledge and ideas
• Key ideas and details
• Staying awake

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is the recommended focus for a second reading?

• Key ideas and details
• Craft and structure
• Integration of knowledge and ideas
• Only vocabulary

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is the recommended focus of the third reading?

• Synthesis and anlysis
• Basic comprehension
• Key ideas and details
• Craft and structure

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What type of questions are central in close reading?

• Open ended questions
• Yes or no questions
• Rhetorical questions
• Text depedent questions

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Close reading was designed to attack what type of texts?

• Grade level ones
• Simple texts
• Complex texts
• Long texts

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is a summary?

• A restatement of a piece of writing that is both brief and written in your own words
• One long quote that uses all of the author's words exactly
• The reader's personal thoughts and opinions about the article and the author
• Just putting the main idea of an article into your own words

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

When writing a summary, what type of information do you want to use for the supporting details?

• All of the information that the article gives
• Only the important information or key details that the article gives
• Only the extra information or "fluff" that the article gives
• Whatever facts the reader thinks are most interesting

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Why do we number our paragraphs before reading a new article?

• Because we have to write a different summary for each paragraph
• Because we need to know how many total paragraphs are in an article
• Because it helps us pin-point key details
• Because it makes the article look nicer

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

What should you be doing during your "First Reading" of a new article?

• Trying to understand what the article is about in general
• Looking for all of the key details
• Writing your main idea sentence
• Reading the article as fast as possible to get to the second reading

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CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10