Close Reading in Elementary School Book Study Ch 4 {FREEBIE}

I am joining in again with two of my Freebielicious Girls {Lyndsey and Tara} this week for their  Close Reading in Elementary School book study.   Reading Informational Text or any challenging text can be difficult because rarely do kids ever want to reread a challenging text just for the “fun of it.”  Not many people do =)

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Chapter 4 is all about close reading across different genres.  Close Reading isn’t a one size fits all where you use the same thing no matter the text.  The chapter outlines frameworks for all the different genres, which is great for people like me that need to see it.  The chapter makes the point that (as we all know) non-fiction is more challenging for lots of reasons:  requires background knowledge, vocabulary, text structure, purpose…and most of all: interest level.  But although these reasons are the reasons why it is more challenging, they are the very reasons why we MUST have our students read non-fiction.  With it, they can begin to build that much needed background knowledge and we can increase access to difficult vocabulary, diverse text structures, as well as, encourage academic rigor.  

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The bottom line?

Every text is unique.  So each one requires a unique close reading framework.  Our job?

Increase students’ literary experiences.

The framework that I found most interesting was the one for poetry.  

I HAVE to do a better job with the poetry I share.

I created this little page to go along with our weekly poems.