Meghan – Determined Reading Specialist in Action, Part 2
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Lesson – Text-Dependent Predictions, Part II
Posted on April 14, 2013So I had a great time teaching a lesson on making text-dependent with a class of second grade students a few weeks ago. In my last blog entry, I wrote about teaching objectives that surfaced during reading conferences with three of these students. The students revealed to me they were not previewing nonfiction texts strategically …Read more
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Teacher’s Blog on Text Complexity & Close Reading
Posted on March 30, 2013Check out this 4th grade teacher’s professional inquiry into text complexity and close reading on her blog. Okay…just a heads up – she does review my book! (Favorably 🙂 ) But I’m recommending her blog because the other resources she’s found deepen our understanding of this type of classroom practice. Thank you, Andrea McEvoy! Video …Read more
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k-1 “Close Reading” of Photos
Posted on March 17, 2013Recently I met a frustrated kinder teacher who told me her students are being asked to count paragraphs and identify key words and phrases. Seriously? She said that all she hears about is close reading, close reading, close reading. My response – no way…not for kindergartners. Yes, close reading is an anchor standard in the …Read more
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Have you ever modeled reading and writing for your students and then when it’s time for them to work independently, they have blank looks on their faces? They are not sure what to do? Meghan, the Reading Specialist whose work I highlighted in my last blog entry, has found a way to “bridge” between modeling …Read more