Falling In Love with Close Reading Chapter 2

Hello!! And welcome back to Week 2 of our group read of Falling In Love with Close Reading!! I have fallen in love with this book and I know you will! Please excuse the late post, back to school week so we have had been busy. We had open house on Friday and I came home and just slept!

As I read this book, in particular this chapter, I realized that I have been doing close reading SO wrong! The authors believe that when close reading we have to pick a purpose, this chapter focused a lot on Text Evidence. When asking students to complete a close read while looking at Text Evidence there are several steps that should be done. The first step is to read through the lenses (p.12). When you are reading through the lenses there are specific details to look at: what the characters say, think, and do, relationships, setting descriptions, and time period. After picking a particular lens, you should use that to find and establish patterns. Decide which details fit together and how they do. And finally use the patterns to develop a new understanding of the text. They demonstrate this through showing how to find text evidence in everyday things among us. This was done by using a SONG! This is something I know my 4th graders would LOVE.

The authors also delve into the topic of non-fiction and how we can use text evidence for non-ficiton, they still provide the exaaples of the lens, but this time it looks at something different with each lens.

If you have not considered purchasing this book, it is worth it! I have enjoyed it and plan to implement the lessons as soon as school starts back..... TOMORROW!

Bye Y'all,

Nicole

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