No cheating!Ĭan you tell me how many dogs were on the cover? I want you to look at the above book cover for ten seconds and then give one giant scroll.Īlright, thanks for that! Those ten seconds I had you stare at the book cover is about the same amount of time we show our students the cover of our book before we open it and start reading! Now let me ask you some questions about that book cover. *Close reads can be for those with or without a big box curriculum. *A close read is simply taking a REALLY good text and expanding the instruction over a week. You instead simply just change HOW you teach it! For example, if you’re stuck in a “big box” curriculum you can just change up how many times you read the required text and add in a focus on vocabulary and text dependent questions! Just remember the following if you start to get the “teaching sweats” when it comes to close reads. That last bullet point is one of the most to remember! You do NOT have to completely change what you already teach (style or curriculum) in order to implement close reading in your classroom.

Close reading… is not a change to what you teach- just how you teach it!.A close read is a process to learning more.A close read teaches students to dig deeper in the text.A close read provides a daily reason to learn.A close read allows students to see connections within the text.A close read has a defined purpose (aka each day students have a ‘job’ they are responsible for).So what exactly is a close read and how does it look in your classroom? For that second part… there’s no way for teachers not to fall in love with close reading so they will be far from bored! However, that just isn’t the case! The students have the chance to be invested in a close read and they ENJOY hearing the text more than once. For some reason we have this idea that it’s BORING to read/hear a text more than once. This is one of the most common comments I get when it comes to close reading. My students would be so BORED to hear a book more than once and frankly I would be bored, too!” Instead… with close reading they get to hear the text more than once and really learn new tidbits each read through! This is one of my most favorite quotes when it comes to close reading but honestly just teaching in general! When it comes to close reading we are allowing a way for our students to DREAM with open eyes! Each time we read a text to the students they are able to imagine, predict, connect, and fall in love with the book!Ĭlose reading allows an opportunity for students to really hear/see a text more than just a quick read. This resource can help prepare students for standardized reading testing, as well as help them become proficient in using context to demonstrate reading comprehension.It’s a close reading tell all! Hi there and thanks so much for taking time to read up on all things CLOSE READING! I will strive to make this post very informational so you might want to click that “bookmark” button so that you can reference back to this post in the future as well! When students choose the correct word to put in the blank, they are constructing meaning from the text and using their knowledge of vocabulary, parts of speech and context to choose the right word. * Each list comes with two different passages.Ĭloze reading is a reading strategy in which students read a short story with missing words and choose the correct word to fill in the blanks. * There are 240 sight words included (24 lists of 10 words each). 1 sight word assessment / lists of words (240 words).Stories come in two variations, with and without picture support for differentiation and English language learners. These passages are useful for 1st and 2nd grade test prep for schools who use cloze reading as an assessment. Do you need a quick, no-prep activity for your students to practice their sight words weekly throughout the entire year? These cloze fill-in-the-blank passages are easy to use, differentiated, and cover 240 first grade high frequency sight words.

1st grade sight words cloze reading