Close Reading for the Whole Class: Easy Strategies For: Choosing Complex Texts – Creating Text-Dependent Questions – Teaching Close Reading Skills – Paperback-Fast Shipping

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by
Sandra Athans (Author),
Denise Devine (Author)

Close reading is a key strategy for comprehending the complex texts required by the Common Core. Sandra Athans and Denise Devine unpack this strategy, breaking it down into manageable components and sharing their classroom-tested lessons and teaching tools that guide students step-by-step through close reading grade-level texts. Athans and Devine demonstrate how to:

– select appropriate text for instruction
– develop high-level questions to guide student thinking
– teach students to use evidence to support their responses
– facilitate discussion to further deepen student comprehension
– scaffold struggling readers

Author Biography

Sandra Athans and Denise Devine teach fourth grade in update New York. They have previously published Quality Comprehension and Fun-tastic Activities for Differentiation Comprehension Instruction with IRA.

Number of Pages: 128Dimensions: 0.26 x 10.69 x 8.76 INPublication Date: March 01, 2015