Found this article from EL http://inservice.ascd.org/educational-leadership/close-reading-teach-it-when-they-need-it/ and it certainly resonated with my thinking as I have been reading Close Reading (Lehman).
Sunday Cummins begins with the question many of us have been pondering, "How often should I give a close reading lesson?”
She reminds us that it's not the, "be all and end all of instructional approaches to teaching reading."
She mentions an article, “Close Reading and Far-Reaching Classroom Discussion: Fostering a Vital Connection,” (Snow and O’Connor) that suggest too much close reading could lead to disengagement or thinking only about text-based evidence rather than our background knowledge or other texts.
In my opinion, and in Cummins summation, there are benefits to close reading of texts. I can attest to this based on my own forays into that realm recently. It's a powerful way to unpack a text and it leads to those wonderful teaching moments when students might say something like, "Did you notice...." and your heart melts!
Sunday Cummins begins with the question many of us have been pondering, "How often should I give a close reading lesson?”
She reminds us that it's not the, "be all and end all of instructional approaches to teaching reading."
She mentions an article, “Close Reading and Far-Reaching Classroom Discussion: Fostering a Vital Connection,” (Snow and O’Connor) that suggest too much close reading could lead to disengagement or thinking only about text-based evidence rather than our background knowledge or other texts.
In my opinion, and in Cummins summation, there are benefits to close reading of texts. I can attest to this based on my own forays into that realm recently. It's a powerful way to unpack a text and it leads to those wonderful teaching moments when students might say something like, "Did you notice...." and your heart melts!
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