Reading+Resources

This page contains resources aligned to the Common Core Reading Standards. Teachers are patient, and create more time, space and support for close reading and students build knowledge about the world through TEXT. Readings in the classroom should be balanced including diverse genres such as fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, historical texts, and various types of informational texts from magazines, journals, online websites,speeches, newspapers.
 * Reading Resources**

**Close Reading** **Close reading** is the major emphasis in the Common Core. Close reading requires an emphasis on readers figuring out the meaning of high quality complex text. This is accomplished by reading texts and writing and discussing texts (as opposed to begin told the meaning by the teacher). Because complex texts do not give up meanings easily, they require several "re-readings" of the text to render meaning. __//Instructional Tools for Close Reading//__ Core Weekly Organizer 5 Strategies for Close Reading [|Lesson Plans for Close Reading] [|Close Reading of Poetry] //__Templates for Close Reading__//

**Ways of using Read Alouds to model close reading** **A Guide to utilizing close reading** media type="custom" key="26387650"

Questioning the Text As the name suggests, a text dependent question, specifically asks as question that can only be answered by referring explicitly back to the text being read. It does not rely on background knowledge or experience with the topic.
 * Text Dependent Questioning **



Questioning the Author is a protocol of inquiries that students can make about the content they are reading. This strategy is designed to encourage students to think beyond the words on the page and to consider the author's intent for the selection and his or her success at communicating it. A tool for recognizing and diagnosing inconsiderate text
 * Questioning the Author: ** [[file:kckliteracycurriculum/Questioning the Author.docx|Questioning the Author.docx]]


 * [|Question Answer Relationship]**
 * **Right There**. The answer is in the text,
 * **Think and Search**. The answer is in the text, but you might have to look in several different sentences to find it.
 * **Author and You**. The answer is not in the text, but you still need information that the author has given you, combined with what you already know,
 * **On My Own**. The answer is not in the text, and in fact you don't even have to have read the text to be able to answer it

Other Resources: [|Varying the type of questions]

**Reading Strategies** The reading strategies below are aligned to the Common Core reading standards. They include graphic organizers, performance tasks, group activities that can be implemented with any texts teachers utilize with students. Developed through the Department of Education in Illinois, they represent a vast list of instructional/assessment approaches to the standards. **Reading Performance tasks aligned to Common Core Clusters**

**PLC ARTICLES**