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

by Sandra Athans and Denise Devine

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545626765
• ISBN13: 9780545626767
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.8" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6