Close Reading Activity Summary

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Part 1: Close Reading Activity Summary Throughout my 14-year teaching career, I have recognized a transformation of teaching reading skills to upper elementary students. It has gone from measurement of comprehension through comprehension questions to one that compels students to put thought into their reading and rely on their reading strategies (Boyles, 2012). Students were required to make more personal connections, however it was not leading to a deeper understanding (Boyles, 2012). This led to a shift of more a focus being put on the text through the use of close reading. Shanahan states that the purpose of a student using close reading as a method to slowly and repeatedly focusing on the understanding of the divergent parts of the …show more content…

The name of the activity is “Relationships from Because of Winn Dixie”. The activity objective is that students will read and reread a given passage closely and focus their reading through questioning and discussion to identify the relationship between the dog and Opal. The following CCS standards are the focus of this assignment: RL.3.1, 3-5; RF.3.3-4; W.3.2, 4-5; SL.3.1-2; L.3.1-5. Materials that are needed for the activity are a set of iPads, highlighters, pencils and copies of the text Because of …show more content…

Anderson stated that by using metacognitive strategies it will allow students to magnify their thinking skills, which will lead to better performance (as cited in Rasekh & Ranjbary, 2003). Being able to understand and control the cognitive process also allows ELL students to develop (Rasekh & Ranjbary, 2003). This certainly meets the needs of my particular group of learners because although they are on a 5th grade level, English is their spoken language at home. A variety of strategies need to be presented to these learners as well as opportunities to think and talk about how they are used during group discussions (Rasekh & Ranjbary, 2003). Students will be discussing how given vocabulary words are used in the text as well as identifying synonyms and antonyms that relate to those given

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