1. General Close Reading Directions
1st time reading: Read carefully and get the gist
What is the text mainly about
What questions are you asking yourself
What do you notice right away
Use context clue to figure out unknown words
2nd time reading: Read again and dig deeper
What stands out about the article
Use the symbols to the right to identify important parts
Summarize the text
3rd time reading: Read one last time and think
What inferences did you make?
What connections did you make?
Gather Evidence
Use the text to answer questions

2. What is space reading Do the following:
Highlight the most important sentence per paragraph.
Annotate using the symbols
Circle every vocab word
Now, answer the following questions:
Summarize the article in a paragraph
What stood out about the article?
What are the different definitions of space in the article?
Based on the article, write a definition of space in your own words? How did you come up with this definition?
Draw a diagram of earths atmospheres and label them with their mathematical heights. Draw and label the important features of each (use the things on the back of the worksheet and the reading to help)
What does the article say about traveling into space? What are requirements? How do they get into space?
Read the article carefully
Complete the green section
Answer the blue questions on a separate
Staple both papers and turn in