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According to the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC),

Close, analytic reading stresses engaging with a text of sufficient complexity directly and examining meaning thoroughly and methodically, encouraging students to read and reread deliberately. Directing student attention on the text itself empowers students to understand the central ideas and key supporting details. It also enables students to reflect on the meanings of individual words and sentences; the order in which sentences unfold; and the development of ideas over the course of the text, which ultimately leads students to arrive at an understanding of the text as a whole. (PARCC, 2011, p. 7)

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A Close Look at Close Reading, Grades K–5 A Close Look at Close Reading: Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Texts, Grades K–5

The Common Core State Standards have put close reading in the spotlight like never before. Although elementary school teachers are certainly willing to teach students to closely read both literary and informational text, many are wondering what, exactly, this involves.

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Tackling Informational Text - November 2013 Educational Leadership - ASCD

Tackling Informational Text

This Educational Leadership issue from November 2013 explores why the Common Core State Standards emphasize teaching students how to read informational text—and how the ability to do so will prepare them for college and the workplace.

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  • Educational Leadership: "Closing in on Close Reading," December 2012
  • ASCD Express: Revisiting Informational Texts, March 27, 2014 (Theme issue)

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A Close Look at Close Reading: Teaching Students to Analyze Complex Texts, Grades 6–12   Read, Write,Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success   Total Literacy Techniques: Tools to Help Students Analyze Literature and Informational Texts   Complex Text Decoded

A Close Look at Close Reading, Grades 6–12

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  • Close Reading: Teaching the Comprehension Skills of Text Analysis and Evaluation with Diane Lapp, Barbara Moss, Maria Grant, and Kelly Johnson (December 9, 2014)
  • Engaging Students in Textual Analysis with Pérsida and William Himmele (September 18, 2014)
  • Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success with Regie Routman (June 24, 2014)

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  • Common Core Literacy: Grades 3–5
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The Innovators: Integrating Literacy Into Curriculum DVD - ASCDThe Innovators: Integrating Literacy into Curriculum

This video shows two examples of effectively integrating literacy education: an elementary school district where integrated literacy programs are having real results across its 44 schools (two-thirds of which are Title 1) and a high school whose literacy coaching program is now a model for other programs nationwide.

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ASCD Faculty members are available for on-site capacity-building professional development on close reading. ASCD can design a precise professional development plan, organized around our field-tested solutions, with a focus on the education foundations that make sense for you.

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