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Close Reading Strategy
This lesson teaches your students to pay attention to small words, such as adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, to make a big difference in reading comprehension! Use as a stand-alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for *Close Reading: Introduction*.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to understand that close reading is a strategy that helps them read with a focus in order to deepen comprehension.
Language
Students will be able to describe story details with adjectives, adverbs, and verbs using cooperative learning groups.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
- Activate prior knowledge by asking students to think about what helps them focus when they read independently. Allow students time to think on their own before sharing with a partner. Then, have them share out as a group.
- Share that readers sometimes lose focus when they are reading a text, and then they realize they don't understand the story. They missed important information because they were not paying attention. Explain that today's lesson will be about a strategy they can use that will help them focus and pick up on details that matter.
- Go over the language objective and have students repeat it aloud.
