The Common Core Standards are causing teachers to rethink how we teach our students. For example, the close read. Here's what we've learned:
Close reading requires that students actually think and understand what they are reading.
It is a careful and purposeful reading.
It’s an encounter with the text where students really focus on what the author had to say, what the author’s purpose was, what the words mean, and what the structure of the text tells us.
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