Close Reading Skills Strategies & Critical Thinking - 10 Key Resources
This is a massive, cost-effective bundle of TEN resources that will help you PLAN for close reading, LOGICALLY SEQUENCE lessons, teach skills in CRITICAL LITERACY and enhance STUDENT CONFIDENCE and robust CRITICAL THINKING as they analyse and discuss texts. All of it can be used from Year 9 up, some of it is just for the seniors. See the list below to see what's included.
☝ Despite years of teaching, with the heavy work-load and being so time-poor, I always felt as though I was flying by the seat of my pants with senior reading! I never knew where to start and worried about what I was missing! So, my first resource in this pack - The Literary Lifesaver - was developed after much research and fine-tuning. After that, everything else followed! Hopefully, this pack will help you feel more confident about teaching close reading too!
Click on the links below to learn more about the resources in this pack include:
- The Literacy Lifesaver
- Getting Cushy with Close Reading
- Close Reading Activity Cards
- Sift and Lift - a generic resource for Unfamiliar Texts
- The Effect of - Evaluating - Language Techniques/Quotations
- Set 4 of the Glitter and Glue series - Reading On, Between and Beyond the Lines
- Set 11 of the Glitter and Glue series - Reading for Purpose, Ideas and Audience
- Set 13 of the Glitter and Glue series - Finding Main Ideas and the Evidence to Prove It
- Set 16 of the Glitter and Glue series - Making Literary Judgements (10 mini lessons)
- Set 20 of the Glitter and Glue series - Text Treasure Hunt (Students read short passages to see what they can find - parts of speech, figurative language, sound devices, ideas, anything!)
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Also helpful are these related products:
- See other helpful sets from the Glitter and Glue series such as narrative perspective, figurative language, literary devices, sound devices and more
- Close reading templates to respond to texts through annotation
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