![]() ![]() It's a good introductory video to give middle and high school students a heads-up on annotation skills. This two-minute video shows students how to annotate - highlighting, marking up the pages and putting notes in the margin. Seuss' Oh, The Places You’ll Go, showing the kind of annotation strategies used to do a close read of the text, highlighting words, phrases and ideas worthy of further explanation/discussion. This is a four-minute close reading from Dr. ![]() The lesson is nicely interactive and shows the students' prior knowledge and understanding of words in the story. The teacher is reading aloud from Bats at the Ballgame and helps students understand the story. This 17-minute video is an actual small-group lesson (seven students) by a second grade teacher. Close Interactive Read-Aloud of "Bats at the Ballgame" (Second Grade) ![]() She has a whole group of students who periodically break into groups of four to discuss questions. This 16-minute video shows a tenth grade instructor teaching close reading of a section from Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning. She then scaffolds a bit with the whole group and has students go back and reread. As the teacher goes around the room, she observes that the kids really don't understand the main idea of the selection. Students work on their own, read and reread the text, work in small groups, etc. She stresses the importance of annotating a text. This is a ten-minute video of a teacher doing a close read of a text in a whole-classroom setting. Her questions draw out important information about the text itself, as well as information that will lead students to write a compare/contrast essay about the two selections they read. In this 15-minute video of a fourth grade teacher doing a close read with her students, the teacher does an excellent job of leading a discussion of the difficult text. When the teacher models close reading, she notices that students aren't understanding, and changes her approach by helping them search the text to provide support for their ideas. This is another three-minute video explaining what teachers and students do during a close read. Doug Fisher: Close Reading and the CCSS: Part II Fisher does an excellent job of explaining the approach and describing what it might look like in a classroom. The video does not show an example of close reading, but Dr. Doug Fisher: Close Reading and the CCSS: Part I The video does not provide a lot of help in understanding the CCSS, just some background about what the original authors intended to do with the standards. This eight-minute video provides an opportunity for teacher educators to hear from the two individuals who are most responsible for the CCSS - David Coleman and Sue Pimentel. Common Core State Standards: Principles of Development The CCSS were not developed by the federal government. This is a set of cartoon drawings that explain the different organizations and institutions involved in developing the CCSS. ![]()
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