Closing in on Close Reading - 73 views
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shared by Jeremy Brueck on 26 Jul 13
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close reading means reading to uncover layers of meaning that lead to deep comprehension.
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Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately.
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If reading closely is the most effective way to achieve deep comprehension, then that's how we should teach students to read.
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But the teaching of reading veered significantly off track when those personal connections (also well represented on some high-stakes state assessments) began to dominate the teaching and testing of comprehension, often leaving the text itself a distant memory.
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the shift to teaching reading as a set of thinking strategies too often left readers with the notion that the text was simply a launching point for their musings, images that popped into their heads, and random questions that, in the end, did little to enhance their understanding of the text itself.
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The best thinkers do monitor and assess their thinking, but in the context of processing the thinking of others (Paul & Elder, 2008)