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Easy Strategies for: Choosing Complex Texts, Creating Text-Dependent Questions, Teaching Close Reading Lessons. Close reading is a key strategy for comprehending the complex texts required by the Common Core. Sandra Athans and Denise Devine unpack this strategy, breaking it down into manageable components and sharing their classroom-tested lessons and teaching tools that guide students step-by-step through close reading grade-level texts. Athans and Devine demonstrate how to • select appropriate text for instruction • develop high-level questions to guide student thinking • teach students to use evidence to support their responses • facilitate discussion to further deepen student comprehension • scaffold struggling readers Intended for use with Grades 2-6. | |