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Close Reading WoRkshop
Close Reading of informational/ literary nonfiction Texts
Learning Targets
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
• Analyze how a particular sentence or paragraph fits into the overall structure
of a text.
• Determine an author’s point of view.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of
strategies.
• Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually,
quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue
under study.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions.
Close Reading for Meaning
What does learning to read closely mean? As readers, we cannot just ask an author questions about the text. We must read the author’s words, looking at what some words say explicitly and what others may imply about the author’s meaning.
Explicit information includes words the author uses to describe events or people in the text. For example, an author might describe a person as having black hair or a city as being in the Midwest. In contrast, many ideas in a text may be implicit; that is, the reader must analyze the words the author uses, as well as actions and dialogue, to determine the author’s meaning. You may need to read a text multiple times to make inferences about meaning. For example, you might read a text first to identify the words you do not know. After learning what those words mean, you would read the text again using your new knowledge to help you understand what the writer is saying.
In this workshop, you will read three different texts and will practice close reading using strategies that will help you make meaning of the text. Your teacher will guide you through the first activity. In Activity 2, you will work in a collaborative group to read and respond to the text. For the third activity, you will work independently to apply close-reading strategies to determine meaning in a new text.
leaRning sTRaTegies
Diffusing, Close Reading, Marking the Text, Rereading, Summarizing, Paraphrasing
Introducing the Strategy: Diffusing
Diffusing is a strategy for close reading of text. Using this strategy, the reader uses context clues, dictionaries, and/or thesauri to discover the meaning of unfamiliar words. Writing notes about meaning or substituting synonyms for unfamiliar words helps the reader increase comprehension of the text.
Close Reading Workshop 1 • Close Reading of Informational/Literary Nonfiction Texts 1
aCademiC VoCabulaRy
Explicit text states ideas or information clearly, leaving no doubt about meaning. Implicit ideas are not clearly stated, leaving the reader to make inferences about the author’s meaning.
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