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Close Reading WoRkshop
Close Reading of shakespeare
Learning Targets
• Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
• Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
• Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
• By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 8 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• Analyze the purpose of information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and evaluate the motives (e.g., social, commercial, political) behind its presentation.
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
• Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Close Reading for Meaning
Close reading means examining word choices and other details of the text help us to better understand the author’s intended meaning. Reading poetry demands a particular form of close reading in which an author’s use of language and syntax is a distinctive element of making meaning of the text. For the passages in this workshop, you may have to focus more carefully on examining the sentence structure and the use of some archaic vocabulary that was much more common or that had different meanings four centuries ago.
In this workshop, you will practice close reading using strategies that will help you make meaning of each text. Your teacher will guide you through the first activity. In the second activity, you will work in a collaborative group to read and respond to the text. In the third activity, you will work independently to apply close reading strategies to determine meaning in a new text.
leaRning sTRaTegies
Close Reading, Diffusing, Guided Reading, Marking the Text, Questioning the Text, Rereading, Shared Reading, Paraphrasing, Think-Pair-Share
Introducing the Strategy: Diffusing
Diffusing is a strategy for close reading of text. Using this strategy, the reader reads to identify unfamiliar words. The reader uses context clues, dictionaries, and/
or thesauruses 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.
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aCademiC VoCabulaRy
Syntax describes the arrangement of words and phrases to create well- formed sentences.
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