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The Common Core State Standards aim to help prepare kids for college and their future careers while they are still in school. Reading comprehension is one of the many skills students must master to excel in a university setting, where their professors will assume they can read a text on their own and learn from it. For this reason, states and schools that have adopted the Standards include close reading lessons in their curricula. What is close reading? The goal of close reading is to build comprehension and develop critical thinking skills. Students should not only be able to identify key content concepts, but apply them to other works and subjects as well. Close reading strategies The students took the article and fable home, where they had to highlight key ideas and form their own opinions on what the two texts had in common. When the students met up in class again, they used quotes to support their hypotheses and held a discussion. By pairing the texts together, the students learned about the dangers of generalizing science. While they could have made these connections with a single text, the themes became more prominent when the fable and article met. |
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