Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--and Life Author: Christopher Lehman | Language: English | ISBN:
0325050848 | Format: PDF
Falling in Love with Close Reading: Lessons for Analyzing Texts--and Life Description
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"Love brings us in close, leads us to study the details of a thing, and asks us to return again and again. These are the motivations and ideas that built this book."
-Chris Lehman and Kate Roberts
You and your students will fall for close reading. In Falling in Love with Close Reading, Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts show us that it can be rigorous, meaningful, and joyous. You'll empower students to not only analyze texts but to admire the craft of a beloved book, study favorite songs and videogames, and challenge peers in evidence-based discussions.
Chris and Kate start with a powerful three-step close-reading ritual that students can apply to any text. Then they lay out practical, engaging lessons that not only guide students to independence in reading texts closely but also help them transfer this critical, analytical skill to media and even the lives they lead.
Responsive to students' needs and field-tested in classrooms, these lessons include:
- strategies for close reading narratives, informational texts, and arguments
- suggestions for differentiation
- sample charts and student work from real classrooms
- connections to the Common Core State Standards
- a focus on viewing media and life in this same careful way.
"We see the ritual of close reading not just as a method of doing the academic work of looking closely at text-evidence, word choice, and structure," write Chris and Kate, "but as an opportunity to bring those practices together to empower our students to see the subtle messages in texts and in their lives." Read Falling in Love with Close Reading and discover that the benefits and joy of close reading don't have to stop at the edge of the page.
Read a sample from the book to learn more about Chris and Kate's close-reading ritual for students and for an annotated text that shows how it works.
- Age Range: 10 - 17 years
- Paperback: 152 pages
- Publisher: Heinemann (October 16, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0325050848
- ISBN-13: 978-0325050843
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Do you want your students to be prepared for life?
This book has lessons that apply for analyzing texts and life - including songs, videos, and books. Re-engage students when you begin planning for instruction that will draw all students into the learning world.
This masterful text by Christopher Lehman and Kate Roberts (with Foreword by Donalyn Miller) begins with a chapter that defines close reading and explains a ritual that will build student independence. It continues with five chapters that detail text evidence, word choice, structure, point of view and reading across texts. Each chapter contains an explanation of the purpose, a customized close reading ritual for that content, texts that surround us every day (media), how to match your purpose to your students while choosing text, a model lesson, real student responses, and then next steps in the form of extensions and support as well as closely reading our own lives.
NOT CONVINCED?
How important is this text as teachers implement changes in instruction to meet the demands of the Common Core?
Close Reading is listed in Reading Anchor Standard 1 and also contained within Key Ideas and Details 2 (main idea/theme), and 3 (individuals/events develop over time); word choice is Reading Anchor Standard 4 under Craft and Structure, structure is Reading Anchor Standard 5, point of view is Reading Anchor Standard 6 and argument 8; and Integration of Knowledge and Ideas contains reading across texts as Reading Anchor Standard 9. The "media" Reading Anchor Standard 7 is included in each of the topics so it truly is "integrated" into all five topics and Reading Anchor Standard 10 is about students reading a wide range and complexity of texts independently that is the goal of the entire text.
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