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Close-Read Guide

Use this page to record your close-read ideas.

Selection Title:

Analyze the Text

Think about the author’s choices of patterns,

structure, techniques, and ideas included in

the text. Select one and record your thoughts

about what this choice conveys.

Close Read the Text

Revisit sections of the text you marked during

your first read. Read these sections closely

and annotate what you notice. Ask yourself

questions about the text. What can you

conclude? Write down your ideas.

QuickWrite

Pick a paragraph from the text that grabbed your interest. Explain the power of this passage.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do our attitudes toward the past and future shape our actions?

Tool Kit

Close-Read Guide and

Model Annotation

 STANDARD

Reading Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently band proficiently.

Overview: Independent Learning 405

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CLOSE READ

Students should begin their close read by

revisiting the annotations they made during their

first read. Then, students should analyze one

of the author’s choices regarding the following

elements:

• structure, such as cause-and-effect or rising
  action, climax, or falling action


• Yord choices such as description or
  exclamatory phrases


• techniSues such as dramatic irony or dialogue
  MAKE IT INTERACTIVE
  Group students by the selection they read, and
  have groups discuss the selection in depth.
  Participants should be guided by their insights
  and their questions.

Personalize for learning

StrateIic SuRRort

#nal[\e the TeZt Help students complete

the Analyze the Text section of the Close-

Read Guide. Remind students to study

the way that a writer addresses a topic.

Suggest that students identify writing-

related annotations with these codes:

•   WP: a writing pattern that is interesting

or functional. Remind students to look

for word choice, sentence length, or

rhythms in the writing.

•   WS: writing structures that support the

genre. For example, students might note

the introduction or conclusion, the claims

or main ideas, or the key parts of a plot.

•   L: literary elements or techniques that

bring out the art in the writing. Remind

students to look for figurative language or

other devices that reflect the author’s style.

•   I: Ideas that the author addresses. Ask

students to think about the message of

the writing.

Once students identify a part of the text,

they can then focus on thinking about how

that section contributes to the whole.

Independent Learning 405

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