Jeff Flygare

Close-reading strategies help students develop the critical-thinking skills essential for the rest of their lives. Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom offers high school and middle school educators extensive guidance on how to introduce close reading to students and help them improve their reading comprehension skills and critical thinking. Learn how to select close-reading examples and passages, elicit deeper question formation, facilitate positive classroom discussion, and assess your students' reading comprehension and literacy progress. Understand the importance of close reading, prereading, and post-reading activities. Learn how to choose appropriate literary or informational texts for close reading. Pass on tools necessary for literary analysis and annotating text. Develop thought-provoking questions and discussion that deepen text analysis and reading comprehension. Assess students' critical and creative thinking skills. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Research and Theory Chapter 2: Prereading Chapter 3: Reading Twice and Annotating Chapter 4: Generating Questions and Reading Analytically Chapter 5: Discussing as a Class or Analyzing Individually, and Using Processing Activities Chapter 6: Planning and Assessing Close Reading Epilogue Appendix A: Answers to Comprehension Questions Appendix B: Extended Examples of Close Reading

Improve Literacy, Reading Comprehension, and Critical-thinking Skills

Close Reading in the Secondary Classroom

Tammy Heflebower

Jan K. Hoegh

Philp B. Warrick

With foreword by Robert J. Marzano When teachers adopt standards-based learning, students take ownership of their education and achievement soars. Written specifically for K-12 teachers, this resource details a sequential approach for connecting curriculum, instruction, assessment methods, and feedback through standards-based education. The authors provide practical advice, real-world examples, and answers to frequently asked questions designed to support you through this important transition. Implement standards-based grading, instruction, and curriculum in your classroom and school: Explore the theories and benefits of a standards-based curriculum and become familiar with several significant paradigm shifts that will help you make a strong transition to a standards-based classroom. Explore ways to shift your thinking about teaching and lesson plans in order to better understand content as a vehicle for the achievement of standards. Learn how to develop proficiency scales that will offer guidance in teaching to existing and new standards. Discover new styles of instruction, educational assessment, feedback, and curriculum building that are well suited to standards-based education. Understand how to develop student ownership through the setting of goals, and access free downloadable reproducibles available with this book. Contents: Table of Contents About the Authors About Marzano Research Introduction Chapter 1: Planning Instruction With Proficiency Scales Chapter 2: Instructing With Proficiency Scales Chapter 3: Setting Goals and Tracking Progress Chapter 4: Administering Quality Classroom Assessments and Figuring Grades Chapter 5: Teaching Exceptional Students Chapter 6: Communicating Grades Epilogue Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions References and Resources Index

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