For a start at my school, I wrote lessons and taught the common core technique
of close reading lesson writing to both English / history teachers and math / science teachers.
Not exact matches
I wanted to get back to work — to get back to preparing tomorrow's theology
lesson, to get back to the theological novel I would
read after
closing the computer with my file
of lecture notes.
So how can we as teachers foster
close reading, overcome fear
of the genre, and cultivate a love for poetic language without getting bogged down in
lessons that feel like dissection labs?
Most suitable for a KS4 class (mid-high ability) Lower sets / KS3 can access the
lesson by including some
close reading exercises with the use
of a Dictionary and Thesaurus.
The texts themselves were chosen by the leadership
of my charter school network, Uncommon Schools, with guidance from both the Common Core text - selection criteria and the network's own curricular team The
lesson plan sequence, questioning, activities,
close reading passages, schema, and focuses were up to me and my co-teacher.
This
lesson is focused on a theme
of community,
lessons learned, analysis
of text /
close reading, and feelings but can easily be modified for other uses.
This
lesson is focused on a theme
of lessons learned, analysis
of text /
close reading, and feelings but can easily be modified for other uses.
In this
lesson, the teacher conducts a
close reading of the text, with a focus on vocabulary and author's craft.
Watch videos
of team members teaching
lessons that involve
close analytic
reading and discuss instructional adjustments.
Help students analyze and comprehend story elements
of The Boy in Strip Pajamas with
lessons in this instructional guide that teach students how to
close read, determine meaning through text - dependent questions, develop text - based vocabulary, and more.
But I'd be hard - pressed to tell you when I've had more than two days in a row where I haven't had to stop a
lesson because
of one or two students who are bent on disrupting the entire class, where I've been able to start a class on time because every student was ready with book, paper, and pencil, or where I didn't have to stop my
lesson repeatedly to tell different students throughout the period to please get their heads up and that it's hard to
read along when their eyes are
closed.
Explore grade - specific classroom scenarios that illustrate how to scaffold
lessons to foster
close reading and deepen comprehension at all stages
of K12 education.
In this
lesson students will do a
close reading of one diary entry from the diary
of an Anonymous Girl to contemplate the effects
of hunger and deprivation on the body, mind, and spirit, and the moral dilemmas that her circumstances caused her to face.
Research based and with practical
lesson plans, the book takes the angst out
of close reading.
Teachers will be able to experience the
close reading rituals with a variety
of text, adjust existing
lesson plans to embed and implement the
close reading strategies, promote
close reading strategies and rituals, embed interventions, and receive quality feedback through peer to peer teaching and coaching
of the
close reading strategies.
This
close reading lesson plan provides a printable informational text that focuses on the historic origins
of the holiday and compares Halloween traditions then and now.
In the classes I teach and in my
Read to Write Books wordpress blog, I share my discoveries and
lessons to be learned from
close reading of masterful fiction.
What I am going to share with you guys today is something that's as
close to a «secret» to trading success as you will find, and I hope after
reading today's
lesson you guys have a sense
of confidence and direction about how best to proceed in becoming a «master price action trader»...
I
read through some
of your blog posts and downloaded your podcast for the commute home tonight - I got some great information from the
lessons you learned from
closing on an out -
of - state apartment; especially around the due diligence process and financing.