Close Reading Instructional Videos
1. View Making the Declaration of Independence Come Alive Links to an external site. from the Teaching Channel. This is a model lesson for Close Reading one of our Founding Documents.
2. View Post Its: Little Notes for Big Discussions Links to an external site. from the Teaching Channel and decide if this strategy will work for your class when you want to annotate a text and are not able to write in the book.
3. View Analyzing Texts with Storyboards Links to an external site.from the Teaching Channel. This video show how students can close read and work together to create storyboards to break down elements of a story / text.
4. View Keep It or Junk It: A Student Run Lesson Links to an external site. from the Teaching Channel. This lesson shows another way that we can train students to Read Closely and use key vocabulary to answer focus questions.
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