5-8th grade Reading Teachers

[nstructor]

Are you doing "close readings" this year? If so, what is your procedure? If you use novels, how do you close read a novel?

 

[Ms_C]

I just started a couple of weeks ago. So far most of my students seemed to be responding to it. My team is using resources we were given from TTMS.org. I am also on the hunt for a copy of Notice and Note. Right now we are just working on short paragraphs so that they can get a handle on how it works.

 

[nstructor]

I just started a couple of weeks ago. So far most of my students seemed to be responding to it. My team is using resources we were given from TTMS.org. I am also on the hunt for a copy of Notice and Note. Right now we are just working on short paragraphs so that they can get a handle on how it works.

Notice and Note is a great tool for close reading. We're reading a novel now, and that's why I wondered how other teachers are doing close reading with a novel, or even with a short text. Do you read to them first, or do you have the students read the text first?

 

[agdamity]

I have the students read first by themselves. They read along with me on the second read. We break it down on the third read. I don't do an entire novel as a close read. I select key areas of the novel to do close reads. They read the rest of the novel as they always have in the past.