1. Close Reading

2. Learning Targets I can describe a close reading lesson.
I will experience a close reading lesson.
I can identify the key components of a close reading lesson.
I will create a close reading lesson to use with students in my classroom.

3. What is close reading Doug Fisher video Introduction
What it looks like

4. Experience a lesson Read the selection
Read for the gist and flow of the passage

5. Read the selection again
Annotate: Words you don’t know
Connections to own life
Identify Strategies you used
These can be taught to your students so they can to digest the text

6. Read for the third time
Answer the questions- answers must be supported with evidence from the text.

7. Questions What is heat? What heats Earth’s atmosphere?
What are the two ways energy can transfer from one material to another?
Explain two ways that Earth’s atmosphere gets heated.
Thermometers measure temperature. What is temperature?
Explain why the alcohol level in a thermometer goes down when the weather gets cold. 

8. Video
What it looks like in the classroom

9. Pros and cons

10. Tips
tip One: Identify the Core Understandings and Key Ideas of the Text
tip Two: Start Small to Build Confidence
tip Three: Target Vocabulary and Text Structure
tip Four: Tackle Tough Sections Head-on