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Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Informational Text K-5
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Literature K-5
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Foundational Skills K-5
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Speaking and Listening
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Language Standards K-5
CC K-5 Read Aloud SR GR IR (shared, guided, independent reading)
CC Narrative Flipbook K-5
CC Narrative Flipbook 6-12
Close Reading and Far-Reaching Classroom Discussion: Fostering Connection
IRA Research Panel - Catherine Snow and Catherine O'Connor
Closing in On the CCSS call for reading more informational text
Edutopia - Is it Time to Drop 'Finding the Main Idea' and Teach Reading in a New Way?Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’ Holly Korbey, July 28, 2020
"You Want Me to Read What?!"
Tim Shanahan, Educational Leadership, Nov 2013
Support Materials for CCSS in Reading
Close and Critical Reading Bookmarks - developed by Michigan's statewide Adolescent Literacy Workgroup
Reading to the Core - Web resource to support Close and Critical Reading using the strategy Guided Highlighted Reading as a scaffold
New! Reading to the Core: Learning to Read Closely, Critically, and Generatively to Meet Performance Tasks - Elaine Weber, Cynthia Schofield, Gerri Newnum
New! Guided Highlighted Reading Resources -- Isles 4-12 ELA Portal developed by Ray Wood, Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
Ppts, numerous GHR examples developed by DoDEA teachers, rubrics, additional resources
Mining the Potential of Argumentative Texts - Chart
Literacy Leaders - Text Structure Web Resource
Text Structure Chart with Paragraph Frames
Text Structure Work Map - Student Workmap for applying 5 text structure frames
Text Structures and Signal Words
Common Core Text Exemplars and Close and Critical Reading
Below are Close and Critical Reading teaching units that use the exemplary text from the Common Core Appendix B.
Grades 2-3 - Seed to Plant
Grades 4-5 - Hurricanes
Grades 6-8 - Freedom Riders
Grades 9-10 - Farewell to Arms
Close Reading (One part of Close and Critical Reading)
Close Reading – Re-reading with a purpose; repeated readings for various purposes; repeated reading to answer text-dependent questions; repeated reading for deep comprehension
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey on Close Reading and the CCSS
New! Great resources that support Nancy and Doug's latest book, Rigorous Reading
The 5 Access Points Toward Proficiency
Recent article in support of Rigorous Reading
Points of Entry (for reading Informational Text), ASCD Educational Leadership, Nov. 2013
Close Reading Excerpted from Text Complexity: Raising the Rigor in Reading, Fisher, Frey, and Lapp, 2012 (p. 107-8)
Videos
Part I
Part II
Engaging the Adolescent Learner: Text Complexity and Close Readings - Designing text-dependent questions to support CCSS Reading -- Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey -
January 2012 -- Available from IRA free to members, $5 for non-members
Doug Fisher's Presentation
Text-Dependent Questions NASSP Instructional Leader Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
At least six categories of questions can be used to structure a progression of text-dependent questions that move from explicit to implicit meaning and from sentence level to whole text and across multiple texts.
- Opinions, Arguments, and Intertextual Connections
- Inferences
- Purpose
- Vocabulary and Text Structure
- Key Details
- General Understanding
Reading to the Core - Web resource to support Close and Critical Reading using the strategy Guided Highlighted Reading as a scaffold
Mining the Potential of Argumentative Texts - Chart
Close Reading (Mid-MI Regional Literacy Ppt - May 2013)
How to do a Close Reading - Eberly Writing Center
Nancy Boyles in Common Core, Now What?, p.36-41
"Closing in on Close Reading"
Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading - Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst
- 6 signposts that help readers notice significant moments in a work of literature
- 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely
Notice and Note Companion Resources tab includes links to videos and pdfs of files from Appendix
Notice and Note Signpost Bookmarks
Notice and Note Worksheet for Analysis of Text Complexity of a Literary Text
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark - front
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark - back
Click here to learn more about Text Complexity.
Content Area Resources
What Content Area Teachers Need to Know about Adolescent Literacy
"Implementing the Common Core State Standards: A Primer on"Close Reading of Text"
The Aspen Institute
"Six Reading Rules for the Common Core" Paige Jaeger, Coordinator for School Library Services, BOCES, NY.
Commentary -- "An Update on the Common Core Reading Wars" - Kathleen Porter-Mcgee, Dec. 12, 2103
"The Debate on How to Teach Reading in the Common Core Era" School Leadership 2.0
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Literature K-5
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Foundational Skills K-5
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Speaking and Listening
Bookmark Common Core Reading Standards - Language Standards K-5
CC K-5 Read Aloud SR GR IR (shared, guided, independent reading)
CC Narrative Flipbook K-5
CC Narrative Flipbook 6-12
Close Reading and Far-Reaching Classroom Discussion: Fostering Connection
IRA Research Panel - Catherine Snow and Catherine O'Connor
Closing in On the CCSS call for reading more informational text
Edutopia - Is it Time to Drop 'Finding the Main Idea' and Teach Reading in a New Way?Some schools are changing the way they teach reading—based on research that shows background knowledge is more critical to comprehension than general skills like ‘finding the main idea.’ Holly Korbey, July 28, 2020
"You Want Me to Read What?!"
Tim Shanahan, Educational Leadership, Nov 2013
Support Materials for CCSS in Reading
Close and Critical Reading Bookmarks - developed by Michigan's statewide Adolescent Literacy Workgroup
Reading to the Core - Web resource to support Close and Critical Reading using the strategy Guided Highlighted Reading as a scaffold
New! Reading to the Core: Learning to Read Closely, Critically, and Generatively to Meet Performance Tasks - Elaine Weber, Cynthia Schofield, Gerri Newnum
New! Guided Highlighted Reading Resources -- Isles 4-12 ELA Portal developed by Ray Wood, Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)
Ppts, numerous GHR examples developed by DoDEA teachers, rubrics, additional resources
Mining the Potential of Argumentative Texts - Chart
Literacy Leaders - Text Structure Web Resource
Text Structure Chart with Paragraph Frames
Text Structure Work Map - Student Workmap for applying 5 text structure frames
Text Structures and Signal Words
Common Core Text Exemplars and Close and Critical Reading
Below are Close and Critical Reading teaching units that use the exemplary text from the Common Core Appendix B.
Grades 2-3 - Seed to Plant
Grades 4-5 - Hurricanes
Grades 6-8 - Freedom Riders
Grades 9-10 - Farewell to Arms
Close Reading (One part of Close and Critical Reading)
Close Reading – Re-reading with a purpose; repeated readings for various purposes; repeated reading to answer text-dependent questions; repeated reading for deep comprehension
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey on Close Reading and the CCSS
New! Great resources that support Nancy and Doug's latest book, Rigorous Reading
The 5 Access Points Toward Proficiency
- Purpose & Modeling: Teachers think aloud to demonstrate critical thinking and how good readers always know why they are reading.
- Close & Scaffolded Reading Instruction: Teachers engage students in repeated readings and discussions, with text-dependent questions, prompts, and cues to help students delve into an author’s ideas.
- Collaborative Conversations: Teachers orchestrate collaborative learning to get students in the habit of exercising their analytical thinking in the presence of their peers.
- An Independent Reading Staircase: Teachers artfully steer students to more challenging books, with strategic bursts of instruction and peer conferences to foster metacognitive awareness.
- Performance: Teachers offer feedback and assessments that help students demonstrate understanding of text in authentic ways and plan instruction based on student understanding.
Recent article in support of Rigorous Reading
Points of Entry (for reading Informational Text), ASCD Educational Leadership, Nov. 2013
Close Reading Excerpted from Text Complexity: Raising the Rigor in Reading, Fisher, Frey, and Lapp, 2012 (p. 107-8)
Videos
Part I
Part II
Engaging the Adolescent Learner: Text Complexity and Close Readings - Designing text-dependent questions to support CCSS Reading -- Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey -
January 2012 -- Available from IRA free to members, $5 for non-members
Doug Fisher's Presentation
Text-Dependent Questions NASSP Instructional Leader Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
At least six categories of questions can be used to structure a progression of text-dependent questions that move from explicit to implicit meaning and from sentence level to whole text and across multiple texts.
- Opinions, Arguments, and Intertextual Connections
- Inferences
- Purpose
- Vocabulary and Text Structure
- Key Details
- General Understanding
Reading to the Core - Web resource to support Close and Critical Reading using the strategy Guided Highlighted Reading as a scaffold
Mining the Potential of Argumentative Texts - Chart
Close Reading (Mid-MI Regional Literacy Ppt - May 2013)
How to do a Close Reading - Eberly Writing Center
Nancy Boyles in Common Core, Now What?, p.36-41
"Closing in on Close Reading"
Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading - Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst
- 6 signposts that help readers notice significant moments in a work of literature
- 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely
Notice and Note Companion Resources tab includes links to videos and pdfs of files from Appendix
Notice and Note Signpost Bookmarks
Notice and Note Worksheet for Analysis of Text Complexity of a Literary Text
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark - front
The Art of Close Reading Bookmark - back
Click here to learn more about Text Complexity.
Content Area Resources
What Content Area Teachers Need to Know about Adolescent Literacy
"Implementing the Common Core State Standards: A Primer on"Close Reading of Text"
The Aspen Institute
"Six Reading Rules for the Common Core" Paige Jaeger, Coordinator for School Library Services, BOCES, NY.
Commentary -- "An Update on the Common Core Reading Wars" - Kathleen Porter-Mcgee, Dec. 12, 2103
"The Debate on How to Teach Reading in the Common Core Era" School Leadership 2.0