This guide explains how to teach students in kindergarten through fifth grade how to be close readers. It describes understanding and evaluating text complexity to identify points of instruction; understanding the role of the close reader and the way information is processed; and planning, teaching, and managing close reading, including identifying initial teaching points, creating text-dependent questions, preparing a text, modeling text annotation and close reading, supporting students, revising teaching points, integrating close reading as part of the school day, designing different grouping configurations, supporting English language learners and struggling readers, using sentence frames to support academic language use, and differentiating instruction and instructional supports. Other chapters address reading closely across the disciplines and understanding text types, with reference to the Common Core State Standards; supporting academic communication about texts and the language, speaking and listening, and writing standards that support close reading; and formative assessment. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less