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Planning Page
How to Use:
1. What will you read? 1
Choose a text that is
-short (you can use part of a text)
2
4
-challenging for your students 5
Hurricanes (p. 4-5)
2. How will it be read? Choose students read,
choral

how hurricanes form
reading, or teacher reads. Consider: what the text
-the decoding ability of your students
3 is mostly
about
-your students familiarity with the vocabulary

3. Choose a skill for the first read that can be

practiced with the text you chose.

4. Set a purpose. Decide what youll say to your

students before reading to aim them toward the
skill being practiced. You might ask them to make
annotations in the text as they read or listen.

5. Text dependent question: Notice that

horizontally across from each skill is a text
dependent question to match. You may want to
write in notes the question or the answer youre
looking for.

6. Repeat steps 2-5 for the 2nd read and 3rd read
sections

Note: The box to the far right of the page reminds you
that all answers students give should be connected to
text evidence.
Close Reading Plan Text:
1st Read -What does it say? Students read Choral reading Teacher reads
Find main idea -get ready to talk about... What was the text mostly about?
-listen for... -pay attention to...
Choose one skill:

-mark places where...

Text Dep. Quest.:

Summarize or retell Tell me/a partner the most important parts of the

Set purpose:
text.
Notice key details Who, what, where, when, why, how

All answers should be backed up with text evidence.

2nd Read - How does the text work? Students read Choral reading Teacher reads
Notice text structure -get ready to talk about... Knowing the structure, what can we expect?
(comp/cont, cause/effect, -listen for... -pay attention to...
prob./solution) -mark places where...

Notice text features How does this feature help us understand the
text?

Text dependent question:

Notice word choice How does the word choice affect the meaning of
the text?
Choose one skill:

Use context clues for How did the author help us understand what ___
new vocabulary means?
Set purpose:

Determine authors Why does the author write this? Who is telling the
purpose (can extend to story?
genre or point of view)

3rd Read -What does it mean? Students read Choral reading Teacher reads
Make an inference -get ready to talk about... What can you infer about ____?
Choose one skill:

Text Dep. Quest.:

-listen for... -pay attention to...

Connect to self, -mark places where... What does this text remind you of?
Set purpose:

world, text, or media How is it the same/different from ____?

Opinion Do you agree with the author? Why?

2014 Hannah Braun, The Classroom Key

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