Close Reading Plan 

1. What will you read? Choose a text that is

• short (you can use part of a text)
• challenging for your students

2. How will it be read? Choose students read, choral reading, or teacher reads. Consider:-the decoding ability of your students-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 you’ll 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 you’re 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.