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Close Reading Lesson with Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine
Posted on October 7, 2014All Aboard! Elijah McCoy’s Steam Engine by Monica Kulling (2013) Recently I had the pleasure of teaching demonstration lessons in several third grade classes. In one class, the students were immersed in a unit of study with the essential question “How can learning help us grow?” The text for the lesson was All Aboard! Elijah …Read more
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Close Reading 2nd Grade Text – Tricky Details for Students
Posted on September 23, 2014As we ask transitional level readers to engage in close reading, let’s be aware of tricky details. Below I share my analysis of one informational text that is very similar to other texts we use in our classrooms. A few weeks ago, I taught several second grade “close reading” lessons with informational texts from the …Read more
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Meghan – Determined Reading Specialist in Action, Part I
Posted on May 22, 2013When you write a book, you never know how readers will perceive your ideas. I hoped my book Close Reading of Informational Text would be a way to start a conversation – with me and with your peers. Well, Meghan, a reading specialist in the western suburbs of Chicago, quite literally took me up on this …Read more
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Recently I was asked to teach a lesson to second grade students with an informational text on magnets. As I read through the text, I began thinking about how many of the students I’d be working with may not have had many language and hands-on experiences with magnets or magnetism or the concept of force, …Read more